toolbar icons

[Niko Sams]

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 22:06, Aleix Pol<aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 9:58 PM, David Nolden
> <david.nolden.kdevelop at art-master.de> wrote:
>>
>> Now with the new quickopen- and context-browser stuff, it becomes more and
>> more apparent that the default mode for icons in the kdevelop toolbar
>> should
>> be "Icons Only".
>>
>> I'm getting tired of seeing wasty screenshots like this
>> http://frinring.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/binspektpart-in-kdevelop.png
>> in
>> the internet. The default UI should be better than that, something like
>> this
>> http://img88.imageshack.us/img88/8485/kdev4uinew.png, just with some
>> additional more useful icons.
>>
>> Other toolbar modes waste tons of vertical space, which is not acceptable
>> in a
>> productivity-oriented IDE, and they also waste a lot of horizontal space,
>> which is used much better by the context-browser and quickopen line.
>>
>> So what do you think?
IMHO we should keep the text as it's a global kde setting.
But we need to create a good default set of buttons.

>>
>> Apart from that, that screenshot shows that the toolbar area switchers are
>> still there. Isn't it time to remove those?
>
> So how do you want to change the area?
Using the tabs - but as andreas said this won't work for kde 4.2.
We could add another #if to hide them just for 4.2

> I think it would rock to have per-area toolbars as well,
> even if I've been told it's not easy at all.
This is really needed for the debugger actions.

Niko