KDE/kdevplatform/shell

[Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen]

Thursday 06 November 2008 Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 06.11.08 20:53:53, David Nolden wrote:
> > Am Donnerstag, 6. November 2008 20:47:56 schrieb Andreas Pakulat:
> > > On 06.11.08 23:01:14, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> > > > On Thursday 06 November 2008 21:55:11 David Nolden wrote:
> > > > Do you happen to remember that we talked about breadcrumps nagivation
> > > > for files, in the form of:
> > > >
> > > > 	project -> dir -> file -> function
> > > >
> > > > ? This is probably what can be put there.
> > >
> > > No actually, that should be replacing the tabs :) I currently seriously
> > > consider not having KDevelop4 with tabs, I mean look at the blogs about
> > > QtCreator, nobody complained about missing tabs to switch between
> > > files. The combobox there was just fine for everybody and it didn't
> > > even include any path.
> >
> > Well, I didn't seriously try using it, but I did not like it. You need to
> > click 3 times to get another file displayed, and never see what's open..
>
> Well, you can't really say that about 20 tabs either. And besides, we could
> have the combobox popup while hovering, which means 1 click. Even without
> hovering its 2 clicks to change the file. Apart from that, I also want to
> have a small overlay widget displaying the list of files around the current
> one when switching with keys.

  There is an interesting and common misconception in the general populace, 
called "clicks are bad, so let's do mouse-overs". The problem with this is 
that clicking the mouse isn't the problem, it's positioning it, stopping 
movement, and then clicking. What this is, is a control-point. Just because it 
pops up on mouse-over doesn't mean that the control-point is gone, it just 
decreases the activity needed to activate it by a minuscule amount.

  When that is said, the hover action would likely work well for the 
breadcrumbs trail, as it wouldn't move the click-active area, but it *would* 
increase the click-active area for the drop-down in the breadcrumbs trail 
(this is something that Dolphin itself might look into as well at some point)

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