Inconsistent order of tool views

[Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen]

On Thursday 19 November 2009 20:16:19 Aleix Pol wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 19, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen
> 
> <admin at leinir.dk>wrote:
> > 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.
> > > > --
> > > > Milian Wolff
> > > > mail at milianw.de
> > > > http://milianw.de
> > > >
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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 ;) )
> >
> > I'm sorry, I can't remember it.
> 
> can you refresh my memory? :P

  Certainly :) The idea is simple - use up all the space of the sidebar, 
rather than bunching it all up in one end. Another thing which is fixed by 
doing it this way is that the current solution has differently sized tabs, 
which even change sizes when you change tabs. A screenshot here:
http://jakilinux.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/vol12_356_amarok.png

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