Redesign of "Configure Launches" dialog

[Milian Wolff]

On Friday 03 February 2012 18:24:54 Sven Brauch wrote:
> Hi there!
> 
> I think most people here agree that the current "Configure launches"
> dialog is quite horrible. Let me quickly summarize the main pitfalls:
> 1. Undiscoverable: I guess most users won't find out that you can
> switch the launch configuration type to "Script" in the tree view. You
> have to horizontally scroll that treeview to uncover an unseen colum,
> then double-click some text which doesn't look like you can click it
> to activate a drop-down-list. This is especially relevant for me, as
> the python plugin requires this functionality to be easy-to-find.
> 2. Unpractical: Even if you know how it works, the whole thing feels
> really sluggish to do, because of the tiny hard-to-find "add" buttons
> and the vertical scrolling.
> 3. Illogical: Why is "Debug" a sub-item in the treeview for the launch
> configuration? In my eyes, that doesn't make any sense. The whole
> tree-view seems overkill for a top-layer which often has only one item
> (at least I seldom have more than one or two projects opened), which
> often only has one or two sub-items (the configurations) which also
> have exactly one sub-item.
> 
> Anyway, enough said about the old one. Here's my suggestion for a new
> dialog, which I'd like to discuss and improve:
>     http://imgur.com/a/lnciJ#0
> Here's the UI file:
>     http://files.feorar.org/launchdialog2.ui
> 
> Changing the "Program type" dropdown thing to something else would
> change the tab layout (for example add an "interpreter" tab).
> Please tell me what you think. Of course it's totally non-functional,
> currently (the UI file is just a mockup).

As said on IRC: Looks neat, I like it. I'd welcome an actual functional patch 
which we could build on for further improvements. Just a note: the dependency 
view is broken as-is though, since it's an l10n nightmare. Remove the long 
sentence and replace it by e.g. an actual listview + filter for the 
dependencies and put the radio below

bye
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Milian Wolff
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