KDevelop 4.0 UI

[Vladimir Prus]

On Sunday 24 May 2009 11:27:29 Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 24.05.09 10:29:35, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> > On Sunday 24 May 2009 04:24:28 David Nolden wrote:
> > > Am Samstag 23 Mai 2009 20:45:17 schrieb David Nolden:
> > > > Version of the last with slightly fixed tab rendering:
> > > >
> > > > http://zwabel.wordpress.com/files/2009/05/mockup41.png
> > > 
> > > Now I couldn't resist sitting down for a few hours, and implementing it in 
> > > this way to see how it looks/feels, and whether it is possible.
> > > 
> > > I've just committed the result to svn, so just take a look at it, and try it 
> > > out.
> > > 
> > > I think it is great. Ok maybe that's just because I finally can switch areas 
> > > again. But using that thing feels extremely intuitive. I have left the toolbar 
> > > area switchers there for now. Since the tabs are in the top-right corner, it 
> > > might be faster to click toolbar buttons instead of moving the mouse up there. 
> > > But alone as an indication of the current state, I think it's worth it.
> > 
> > How is this approach is gonna scale is there's 10 perspectives? (I am making
> > no statement as to whether it scales better or worse than the previous
> > approach). 10 is roughly the number of perspectives my Eclipse install has.
> 
> There's nothing stopping us from making sure there are never more than 3
> tabs visible and then having the tabbar-usual arrows to walk along it.

Probably; I am suggesting that if this UI is gonna be the final one, then
probably this should be done sooner, rather than later, so that we don't
run into some unpleasant surprises when we actually have 10 perspectives.

- Volodya