Change a4fea05a43b8fe57b9f43afeb6ed6bd88601c053, Reduce verbosity while reloading

Aleix Pol aleixpol at kde.org
Tue Aug 14 23:17:00 UTC 2012


On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 7:42 PM, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 7:32 PM, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:
>>> On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 8:24 AM, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de> wrote:
>>>> Hi,
>>>>
>>>> just read my irc backlog and noticed that commit (I'm not reading
>>>> commit mails anymore). I'm wondering about two things:
>>>>
>>>> a) currently it looks like the reload-questions is not shown anymore
>>>> when the document is dirty. That sounds wrong, since it would mean the
>>>> user as unsaved changes and the document is reloaded, so he can loose
>>>> data
>>> It's dirty in the file-system, the flag modified in the IDE is Modified.
>>> Also IDocument::reload is triggered when you call the reload action.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> b) Is this really the right way? This function is also called when
>>>> switching between documents, which means that with the change one
>>>> could loose saved changes now by simply switching through tabs or so.
>>> Switching tabs doesn't and shouldn't call IDocument::reload()
>>> I made this patch because it doesn't make sense to me that when we
>>> explicitly reload a file to see what changed in the file system, we
>>> get a dialog asking if we are sure we want that.
>>> Yes, that's why I'm reloading in the first place.
>>
>> After double-checking the actual code I take back my comments and
>> agree with you. The patch is completely ok. Thanks for working on
>> that.
>
> Only thing lacking  (after some more digging through the code) is that
> File->Reload to reload just the current document will still show the
> warning. But thats not fixable by us I guess since the action is
> contributed by katepart.
>
> Andreas
>
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That's correct.
TL;DR: Patches welcome

Also when you change a bunch of files (for example when you git
checkount <branch>) you'll get all files complaining that they have to
be reloaded (which is why I wanted to improve "Reload All"). Now we
have an alternative but I'm not sure if we still want those dialogs
there, still. Maybe we could add a "Reload All" option to that dialog?
(which belongs to kate, AFAIR).

I'm unsure what's the best way to solve this, but I'm sure we want to
improve the control we have there. It has a big impact in our user
experience.
In any case, why does KatePart even throw dialogs at us? Shouldn't be
the host application responsible to handle those cases by providing
all the needed information?

Aleix




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