Inconsistent order of tool views

[Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen]

On Thursday 19 November 2009 20:07:23 Aleix Pol wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 6:53 PM, Milian Wolff <mail at milianw.de> wrote:
> > On Thursday, 19. November 2009 17:34:05 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> > > The order of which tool views appear upon starting KDevelop 4 (SVN)
> > > seems random:
> > >
> > >    http://i48.tinypic.com/2va02uh.png
> > >    http://i50.tinypic.com/szhgly.png
> > >
> > > I didn't try to re-order anything manually between the two sessions yet
> > > they change positions at random.  This hurts consistency.
> >
> > Not easy to fix, but I also concur - it should be fixed at some point.
> >
> > Right now tool views are agnostic to their position. It's just saved that
> > tool
> > view X was in area Y at position Z (position == top, bottom, left,
> > right).
> >
> > Once we can restore the position correctly one could also hopefully make
> > them
> > uniquely adressable. I.e. consistent configs per view etc. pp. (think
> > also toggle shortcuts).
> >
> > Imo this should become a bugreport for KDevelop 4.1. Won't happen for 4.0
> > sadly.
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> > Milian Wolff
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> we could just sort them alphabetically or smth like that.
> 
> That shouldn't be that hard...

  From a usability perspective, that certainly makes sense :) (i would, by the 
way, like to propose a similar button layout to the one found in Amarok 1.4, 
but that's a different story ;) )

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