History Navigation Proposal by Alexander

[Andreas Pakulat]

Hi,

on behalf of Alexander I present his proposals for history navigation in
Kdevelop4:

The Task
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Let's imagine we have KDevelop with two split views. In each view user opened several files. Current state of the screen is: 
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|  file3.cpp |  file4.cpp |
|            |            |
|            |            |
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Files previously opened in views are: 
  left view:    | right view:
  1. file1.cpp  | 2. file2.cpp
  3. file3.cpp  | 4. file4.cpp

Numbers near the filenames indicate the order in which user opened the files. 
This means the user: 
 opened file1.cpp 
 split the screen and opened file2.cpp 
 got back to the first view and opened file3.cpp 
 switched to the last view and opened file4.cpp 
Currently focus is in file4.cpp editor. 
Also let's assume Alt-Up/Down keys traverse the history Back/Forward 

Proposals
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v.1 In-View History Navigation 
   Back: show file2.cpp 
   Forward: show file4.cpp 
v.2 Global History Navigation With Switching 
   Back: switch to left view + focus file3.cpp 
   Back: switch to right view + show file2.cpp 
   Back: switch to left view + show file1.cpp 
   Forward: switch to right view + focus file2.cpp 
   Forward: switch to left view + show file3.cpp 
   Forward: switch to right view + show file4.cpp 
v.3 Global In-View History Navigation 
   Back: show file3.cpp 
   Back: show file2.cpp 
   Back: show file1.cpp 
   Forward: show file2.cpp 
   Forward: show file3.cpp 
   Forward: show file4.cpp

Please comment.

Andreas

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