Preliminary breadcrumbs implementation - patch

Vladimir Prus ghost at cs.msu.su
Mon Nov 24 11:24:43 UTC 2008


On Monday 24 November 2008 13:46:24 Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen wrote:
> Saturday 22 November 2008 Иван Ручкин wrote:
> > Preliminary breadcrumbs implementation
> >
> > This patch is work-in-progress towards 'breadcrumbs' nagivation in
> > KDevelop, that hopefully will be able to replace tabs one day. The patch is
> > preliminary, and is not meant to be committed right now, but I wanted to
> > check if the general direction is right.
> >
> > -On each tab a special 'breadcrumbs' navigation bar, showing the path from
> > root to current document, is added.
> >
> > -The list of files is split into 2 categories: files that have already been
> > opened somewhen and other files. This feature is now in development and
> > maybe will be changed, so in this version files are split into categories
> > using the filename lenght, just for testing purposes.
> >
> >
> > Intended changes:
> > -Implement real code for detecting what files are open - the current code
> > is dummy. -Improve the popup dialog with files.
> > -Include project name and current function in the navigator.
> > -Change in general appearance.
> 
>   Is an intended change to make it look like the trail in Dolphin? ;) Just an 
> idea, really, but it would be advantageous to make it look like, or even build 
> on the widget from, Dolphin's location bar :)

I'm not sure -- last time I've looked, Dolphin location's bar was fairly coupled
to the rest of the code. Or maybe I was not looking on Dolphin, but on open
dialog. Anyway, it's clear that it's best to reuse the code or the look of
existing Dolphin solution as much as possible.

- Volodya








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