Source-formatter

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 11.01.10 01:01:07, David Nolden wrote:
> Am Montag 11 Januar 2010 00:40:02 schrieb Andreas Pakulat:
> > On 10.01.10 23:07:30, David Nolden wrote:
> > > Every language has a list of "supported mimetypes" in its configuration
> > > file. Cannot we just access that information, without loading the
> > > language supports?
> > 
> > IIRC thats not whats needed from the plugin. The problem is that the
> > "language name" is only available once its loaded. The mimetype is
> > indeed stored in the .desktop file and can be acessed that way.
> 
> Hmm if we can read X-KDevelop-SupportedMimeTypes, why cannot we read X-
> KDevelop-Language in the same way? With those 2, we would have enough 
> information to do the whole mapping.

Heh, we can, totally overlooked that this property exists :)

> > > > > It's even worse if you have multiple projects open in one session,
> > > > > where each project may have _completely_ different formatting.
> > > > >
> > > > > I guess we should by default have per-session settings, and then
> > > > > allow to selectively assign other styles to specific paths. Have you
> > > > > thought about that already?
> > > >
> > > > I do understand the problem. The thing is that we already now have a
> > > > dialog and a "dialog in a dialog". So we might need to completely
> > > > redesign the configuration interface.
> > > >
> > > > > I guess the simplest way would be adding a "Path" dropdown under
> > > > > "Mimetype aka. Language", where you have a little "+" and "-" button
> > > > > to add new paths, and the default path would be "Global".
> > > >
> > > > Can you create a mockup, I'm not quite clear what you mean with
> > > > dropdown or how you imagine this to look like.
> > >
> > > I've got enough of hacking for today, maybe tomorrow I will take a look
> > > at it.
> > 
> > I'm mostly unclear about what kind of widgets you want to place where.
> > So really a .ui file is enough I think.
> 
> Well looking at the current .ui file, I would redesign it a bit, to something 
> like this:

/me likes this. I probably won't have time for any hacking this week, but
I'll try to do this on the weekend (unless someone else wants to). Might
need some adjustments to the in-memory-representation of the settings
(which I still don't really like as they are right now).

Andreas

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