Better toolview

[Aleix Pol]

On Mon, Nov 29, 2010 at 8:20 PM, Silvère LESTANG
<silvere.lestang at gmail.com>wrote:

> Hey,
> a lot of plugins and features (Build, Run, Debug, Test and Version Control)
> use the standardouputview for displaying what they need to display. But this
> toolview is quite generic and doesn't correspond to the needs of most of
> them, and thus make it difficult to users to understand the UI (the previous
> and next buttons doesn't always do something and the two buttons "Select
> activated item" and "Focus when selecting item" are difficult to understand
> and irrelevant sometimes).
> I try in the last few days to see if it was possible to improve the
> standardouputview to full fit the needs of all plugins and features but I
> arrived to the conclusion that it's useless as every plugins have a slightly
> different needs.
> So I proposed to create a new toolview for each plugins or features which
> need one, starting by the Build feature.
> I think we need to keep the previous and next item, remove the "Select
> activated item" and "Focus when selecting item" buttons and replace them by
> a warning and error buttons that we can toggle to display only warnings
> and/or errors. I make a little mock up here:
> http://www.kdevelop.org/mediawiki/images/b/b8/Build_toolview.png
> What do you think about that?
>
> Silvère
>
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Well, you don't want to create new toolviews for every plugin, we can
provide actions from the plugins, though.

Aleix
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