Redesign of "Configure Launches" dialog

[Sven Brauch]

Hi,

I think I'll just copy the old build dependencies widget, if you think
it works okay. I never used it personally.

I think the tabs will work fine, they prevent an information overload
on the screen and help to categorize settings which are seldomly used
(did you ever change the debugger executable? I didn't).

Greetings

Am 5. Februar 2012 01:08 schrieb Aleix Pol <aleixpol at kde.org>:
> On Sat, Feb 4, 2012 at 11:50 PM, Milian Wolff <mail at milianw.de> wrote:
>> 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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>
> Yes, I like it too. I haven't ever tried it with the "Script"
> launcher, so I'm not sure what's the status there, but I know it
> should be improved.
>
> I also think that the build dependencies tab should stay as it is now,
> works fine to me. It could be easier but it's powerful.
>
> Regarding the UI specifically, I don't really know if tabs are good
> there, so I hope it's going to work fine :).
>
> Cheers!
> Aleix
>
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