KDevelop: General direction and UI - don't worry

Aleix aleixpol at gmail.com
Tue Nov 4 15:46:18 UTC 2008


Maybe we should start to create the extragear plugin project as we have said
other times...

On Tue, Nov 4, 2008 at 4:27 PM, David Nolden <zwabel at googlemail.com> wrote:

> Am Dienstag, 4. November 2008 16:09:52 schrieb Evgeniy Ivanov:
> > Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > > On 03.11.08 22:23:12, Alexander Dymo wrote:
> > >> 8) check in and out my project from any modern VCS
> > >
> > > SVN works, except adding new files. At least last I checked :) We need
> to
> > > sort out the menu-mess a bit and provide better GUI for some things
> > > (svn blame still doesn't use the "specially created for it"
> > > kate-annotation support)
> >
> > Git,Hg, Bzr can do most common things except clonning existed projects.
> > Git also has branching and some another features (the weakest place is
> > revision history). Mostly all things are tested, but having some Squish
> > tests will make us sure it works.
> > I hope when I adopt to my work-project, I will give some love to these
> > plugins. Also I hope to become stronger in python, so we will able to
> > integrate QBazaar to our current executors (afaik it's maintained by
> > somebody from KDE).
> > Andreas has written some optimization for isVersionControlled(), but
> > some my menu-code still works in a "wrong" way. It's the thing I dislike.
> I think we anyway should not ship all of these with KDevelop 4.0, because
> it's
> very unprobably that they really all get properly tested before. I think,
> for
> KDevelop 4.0, we should concentrate on really rock-solid Git and Svn
> support.
>
> > As for usability: I don't like too many menus and buttons. If user
> > doesn't need VCS integration, he shouldn't see any VCS menus (but some
> > easy to use switch in options). The same is about other features. It can
>
> Exactly.. this thing needs to be fixed as well. Those menus cannot work at
> all
> if the file is not in the proper version-control system, and we sould not
> have _any_ menu-entries in the UI that don't work.
>
> Greetings, DAvid
>
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