My notes to the BoF minutes

[Aleix]

What's a cmake dashboard? :P Maybe I've missed something...

On 7/4/07, Matt Rogers <mattr at kde.org> wrote:
>
> On Jul 3, 2007, at 1:49 PM, Alexander Dymo wrote:
>
> > On 7/3/07, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de> wrote:
> >> Having said that: I have no idea how we should test our GUI. Testing
> >> small widgets like kdeui/ in kdelibs is rather easy, you can create a
> >> test-executable that creates some events or you can just display the
> >> widget to the user. However testing the project settings gui isn't
> >> that
> >> easy, as it needs a kdevplatform application, the manager plugin
> >> and a
> >> project.
> > That's why we need to sit down and first write tests (like Jens
> > suggested) and only there decide whether "write tests" will be a
> > recommendation or a policy.
> >
> >>        How to make QuickOpen more visible / easily usable.
> >>
> >> Have a Navigation Menu with such things? Currently Quick-Open-File
> >> should be relatively easy to find (its in the File menu) but
> >> Quick-Open-Class/Method are in tools. I think some other things
> >> can be
> >> moved out of tools as well (all those code-formatting stuff for
> >> example)
> >
> > Don't worry, the minutes say as if we don't have solution at hands,
> > but I already have one ;)
> >
>
> So what is it? Not funny to say "i have a solution" but yet leave us
> in the dark as to what the solution is.
>
> >>        Status Bar vs. Tab - where to display the current file info?
> >>
> >> How about a toolbar? It needs to be rather short of course, something
> >> like insert-mod as an icon+INS text, row/col and maybe the
> >> lineending.
> >> If we keep our toolbar small (i.e. few entries, certainly no
> >> navigator
> >> like in kdev3) it shouldn't be a problem to have this there.
> > The problem here is that the toolbar is too far away from the editor,
> > especially if you have split views.
> >
> >> Or does that just mean that I should be able to edit the
> >> CMakeLists.txt
> >> and the results show up in the simple gui? If thats the case I'm
> >> all for
> >> it ;)
> > Yes, basically we agreed that we should support Aleix's work on
> > parser.
> >
> >> So whenever somebody wants to add a feature which uses an external
> >> program or library, it would be nice of him to check wether it is
> >> supported under windows and if not see if he can easily find a
> >> replacement.
> >
> > And also we'd need to have a system with nightly builds on linuxes,
> > macos and windows to make sure we know that the build is broken on
> > some systems.
>
> Somebody should set up a cmake dashboard for kdevelop
> --
> Matt
>
>
>
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