KDevelop4: better menu/toolbar/shortcut control

[Hamish Rodda]

On Saturday 06 January 2007 19:09, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> So, I've built and run KDevelop4, and the first thing I notice is that
> we seem to be at Kate's mercy again and if we don't do something
> most of menus, toolbars and context menus will be full of Kate commands.
>
> Let me go though the main toolbar, which is the most precious space.
>
> 1. It has "Cut", "Copy" and "Paste" commands. Do we expect that an IDE user
> does not know the keyboard shortcuts for those?
>
> 2. It has "Undo"/"Redo" -- likewize, shortcuts exists.
>
> 3. It has "Enlarge Font/Shift font" -- which take extra space
> because the labels are long. Do we need *this* in the main
> toolbar. I'm sure I never changed the font, and it certainly
> not so common operation.
>
> 4. "Print". Is this so common operation that it deserve a place on the
> toolbar?
>
> 5. "Save as" -- likewise.
>
> 6. "Save" -- well, it is a common operation, but "Ctrl-S" is the standard
> shortcut for it since forever. Why waste toolbar space?
>
> The situation with shortcuts is also bad. Just like in KDE3, Kate grabs F9,
> F10 and F11. And in KDevelop, I want those for debugger.
>
> So, I guess this post boils down to:
>
> 1. Any existing mechanism to kill actions/shortcuts contributed but KParts?
> 2. If no, anybody objects if I implement something?
> 3. If no, maybe anybody has some great ideas right away?

Hopefully when Simon starts on LiveUI and we can give XMLGUI the flick, this 
will be much more flexible.  I think removing Save would be a bit extreme, 
though.

Nice to see you're looking at version 4... looking forward to some good stuff!

Cheers,
Hamish.
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