A test session with the current kdevelop

[Matthew Woehlke]

Alexander Dymo wrote:
> On Wednesday 18 October 2006 02:05, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> Well then this needs to be reassigned to whoever maintains bluecurve
>> (and someone does, it changed - and not IMO for the better - when I
>> finally moved to kde 3.5.5), and/or KDevelop needs to rethink how it
>> creates tabs.
> The width of simple ideal button is calculated with QStyle::CT_ToolButton
> contents type and not with CT_PushButton like kmdi does.
> In most styles that makes the simpleideal button _smaller_.
> Maybe that is the problem with bluecurve. Could you please try my newui patch?

Will do, thanks. This will also help me (by pointing me at the right 
spot to look) play with bluecurve if I can get it to build (I'm trying 
to mutate it into the kdeartworks package; I am thinking about making a 
new style based on bluecurve but with some keramik-inspired changes).

You omitted paths; I'm assuming this is <kdevelop>/src/newui/button.cpp 
(looks right, correct me if that's not it).

>> This also doesn't address that we've lost dynamic resizing of the
>> docking windows, which IMO is a step backwards.
> Sorry, I don't know the easy way to do that. I'll try to find it.

Thanks; it can certainly be an optional feature, but it's one of the 
things I really miss from old-ideal.

> Same for the width of resize handles (but I doublt I'll change them,
> 4px is too small).

Actually, looking at this again, I'm not sure they are actually "larger" 
as opposed to just "more visually distracting". Problem #1 is that they 
should be invisible when the docked tabs are not actually *open*. 
Problem 2 is that they are not using my color scheme (or are using it 
incorrectly), which makes them stand out a lot more when they are 
visible. If you look at (1) you'll see what I mean; they look awful. In 
this particular case they should actually be hidden as in (2), but they 
look like this even when correctly visible. For kmdi's ideal they are 
using the same face, highlight, and shadow colors as the toolbar. In 
simplified, it looks like they are using fixed colors from the default 
scheme.

And so far we haven't mentioned the third problem (also see bug (3)), 
which is docking strips visible that shouldn't be.

Also, is there any way to force the left pane to be full height and the 
bottom pane to fit in the remainder of the window minus the left pane? 
With kmdi-ideal this is potluck, i.e. if I restart KDevelop I usually 
get what I want about every other time. With simplified it seems to be 
consistently the way I don't want it. I could probably get used to this, 
but it would be better if it was configurable.

1: http://bugs.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=17412&action=view
2: http://bugs.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=17413&action=view
3: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=132460

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Matthew
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