Changed Open/Import Project Page

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 02.08.10 21:23:45, Aleix Pol wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 3:56 PM, Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:
> > Yes, that's what I meant by finding a better solution
> 
> So we don't like the first step I added and I was considering solutions.
> Since I have like a mental mess I'll put here the solutions I've thought of
> so that we can discuss.
> 
> - Separe the wizard into two menu entries open and import project for
> example. It's easy and straightforward, no code duplication but clutters a
> little the menu. I like it, but I fear the name might not be verbose enough.

This is bad, there's a reason that its open/import project now. That
reason is that in kdev3 times users where always confused which one to
use when. IIRC the 'import' part is only kept there to cater for kdev3
users which are used to look for an import entry to get their project
into kdevelop (when it has no .kdev4 file).

> - Put a Import project button in the same page as the KFileDialog that shows
> the dialog. That would make the UI a little uglier but wouldn't influence
> the rest that much. Also it would make the new feature very hard to see and
> since it's very oriented to newcomers I don't really like it.

I don't like that either, for the reasons you've already given. 

> - Have two KFileDialogs, one for the local case (with the select source
> widget in the same view) and another one on the next page in case it's a
> project that's just been checked out. I think this one might make the UI a
> little complicated and probably duplicate some code but it would be the best
> for current users.

I guess you mean having the first page with the combobox and in case
'local' is selected (don't have the exact string here right now) get the
file-selector below the combobox. On the other hand when selecting
git/svn/... one would get whats there right now, i.e. a separate page
with the actual file...

> What do you think? I think the best is to have the two menu entries but I'd
> also like to know what do you think of my concerns on the other ones.

I'd like to propose two more options:

- have two menu entries, one for open/import project from disk, one for
  open/import project from remote source (need to find better texts)
  with separate dialog flows
- Separate the "fetch" step from the "open/import" step, again by having
  a separate menu entry, but automatically opening the open/import
  dialog once the fetch is done. This would also make it easier to do
  the whole thing asynchronously and showing progress of the
  fetch-stuff. So there's a Project->Fetch Remote Project option which
  has the first page of the import-wizard only, eventually a second one
  if necessary. And then once the job doing the fetch (could be a
  kio-copy, svn checkout, git clone, whatever) is finished it could
  invoke the import wizard automatically.


Andreas

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