Guidance for contribution ...

[Vladimir Prus]

On Sunday 27 April 2008 11:51:01 Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 27.04.08 01:43:17, David Nolden wrote:
> > On Friday 25 April 2008 19:56:02 Sandro Andrade wrote:
> > > Could anyone point me to some initial development contribution ? I have a
> > > general and shallow knowledge about the KDevelop4 architecture and plugins.
> > > I think I need just an initial support in order to get involved.
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance,
> > 
> > One easy thing that comes into my mind right now:
> > We need a navigation-history in kdevelop-4.
> > 
> > Basically that just means that the function DocumentController::openDocument 
> > in kdevplatform/shell/documentcontroller.cpp needs to record all opened 
> > documents, and allow several ways of navigating that history 
> > forwards/backwards(for the beginning).
> 
> Hmm, did we decide on what kind of navigation history we want? i.e.
> wether changing position/line inside kate should be recorded as well, or
> what about quick-open? Or should it just be recently-used-document
> history?

I don't think we did. I'd much rather than "jump to declaration", or 
clicking anything in grep results, will remember the current position.
Since openDocument takes a cursor, it can do that just fine, but I guess
we still have to agree this the behaviour we need.

- Volodya