extragear/sdk/kdevplatform/shell

[Niko Sams]

On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 13:47, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de> wrote:
> On 07.12.09 12:58:14, David Nolden wrote:
>> Am Montag 07 Dezember 2009 09:54:45 schrieb Andreas Pakulat:
>> > On 07.12.09 01:44:59, David Nolden wrote:
>> > > SVN commit 1059604 by zwabel:
>> > >
>> > > Show the set of contained projects with each session in the menu, so you
>> > > know what session you might want to start
>> >
>> > I don't think I like this. This makes the menu entry overly long very
>> > easily. Even with just 4 projects its too long already IMHO.
>> Imo the length here doesn't matter. Users have big screens, why not use them?
>
> I have at least 1 screen thats not sooo big. Not to mention that menus that
> grow outside the actual application window just look broken.
>
>> This is in line with the results of the discussions we had about session
>> management. Generally, we need this if we want session-management to work
>> without forcing the user to explicitly "manage" his sessions by giving them
>> names. IMO by default sessions should be completely name-less, like working
>> sets. If we make it right, the user will automatically use session, without
>> having the feeling of being forced to an exaggerated effort.
>
> You're mixing sessions and "project-set" here. A session has more to it
> that just the projects being loaded in it.
I think we first should define the use cases sessions are good for,
find a common scenario
and support that optimally.

Niko