Final KDevelop 4.0 UI

[Ramon Zarazua]

Great, tabs do feel more intuitive than buttons. However it might just be me, 
but tabs that switch between views with more tabs looks strange.

I love the search with quick-open! however having it at the center middle 
feels out of place, in my opinion what should be in the middle are all the 
build, debug, run etc.. buttons, and have the search bar be smaller and to the 
right.

>Just by the way, the area switchers still don't work here.
>
>But meanwhile I've thought a bit how the area switching could be made more 
>intuitive, and how we could put together the components we have/will have 
into 
>a neat UI.
>
>In these mockups you see the results.
>
>Since when you switch between areas, you essentiall switch everything below, 
>including tool-views and files, I think tabs are the most natural and 
>intuitive way of expressing this.
>
>Then at the right side of those area-tabs there should be the tool-bar. By .
>default it should contain very few, but useful actions. "Save" should be the 
>only standard action there, apart from that we should add a bunch of tool-
>buttons that are really useful, like "build", "debug", or something like 
that.
>
>Also as part of the toolbar, there should be a quickopen line, to increase 
>discoverability of quickopen. As soon as the user starts typing into it, it 
>should expand, and show the usual quickopen user interface.
>
>Then, there could be the breadcrumb implementation we have. It cannot replace 
>the tabs, but it is useful as an additional knowledge source for "where am 
>I?", and allows switching to related files using the mouse.
>
>I think with this layout, we have a very nice user interface. Quite a bit of 
>functionality, and no wasted space.
>
>Greetings, David
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