[RFC] Transform workspace into session

Matt Rogers mattr at kde.org
Sun Jun 29 22:17:58 UTC 2008


On Sunday 29 June 2008 15:23:52 Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> Hi,
>
> at the kdevelop sprint we pretty much agreed that some "central" place
> to store metadata is needed, so I implemented a "workspace" thing thats
> part of our project tree model. However thinking about this, it doesn't
> make too much sense there and it also introduces space-wasting in the
> treeview.
>
> Now other apps in KDE have a concept of "session" which IMHO fits here
> pretty well, we can assign a data-area to a session. So plugins that
> still want to store some project-unrelated metadata (like teamwork for
> example, or svn-plugin for repositories) can do it. Also looking at kate
> this works pretty well, people not interested in it (like Alex) can just
> tell KDevelop once on first startup to use the default session and never
> ask again for session-choosing.
>
> What do others think? Should we(I) look at how Kate's doing it and
> eventually try to move some code to kdelibs for 4.2 so we can share code
> with kate (or else just copy)?
>
> Andreas

I like the idea. I dislike Eclipse's notion of a workspace anyways.
--
Matt




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