Same toolview active multiple times?

[Ghislain MARY]

Then from the UI perspective what would be the best?
I imagine these possibilities:
 1. Keeping the current "Add Tool View" dialog but listing only the tool views 
that are not already present in any dock area.
 2. Keeping the current "Add Tool View" dialog but listing only the tool views 
that are not already present in the default dock area for the tool view to be 
added. A tool view could then be added in its default dock area even if it is 
already present in an other dock area.
 3. Using an interface similar to the "Configure Toolbars" dialog with two 
lists where the tool views could be transferred from the "available toolviews" 
list to the "current toolviews" list and the other way around.

For solutions 1 and 2 the user can only remove the tool view from its context 
menu. For solution 3 the user can also remove the tool view from "Add Tool 
View" dialog (which will then need to be renamed by the way).

The list of tool views that can be added from the dock area context menu must 
also be updated to list only the tool views that are not already present in 
the dock area (or in any dock area) to prevent adding the same tool view 
several times.

My preference would go for solution 1. What do you think?

Maybe it would be great also to be able to drag&drop a toolview from one dock 
area to an other but I don't know if that's possible to do so.

Ghislain MARY


Le mercredi 9 mai 2012 23:55:21 Andreas Pakulat a écrit :

Hi,


On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 11:19 PM, Ghislain MARY <gmary at lunacymaze.org> wrote:

Hi all!
 
By trying to solve the bug 165969, the question of the relevance of being able 
of adding a toolview several times was raised. 
What do you think? Should the user be able to add a toolview any times she 
wants? Should she be limited to add each toolview only one time per area? 
Should she be limited to add each toolview only one time globally?


Definetly 1 toolview per area, or maybe rather a toolview should be able to be 
shown in all areas and not limited to only one.


Regarding having multiple instances of a toolview-type in one area, thats a 
questionable thing. We didn't want to impose that restriction in the initial 
design, thinking that it may make sense for some toolviews. But frankly I 
haven't ever had the need for this in either KDevelop or other IDE's which 
have a toolview concept. I think one of the ideas was that some toolviews may 
be useful to have in different configurations, one could imagine two instances 
of the project view with different filterings applied. I'm not convinced anymore 
though that this is a very widespread usecase that warrants the effort 
necessary for supporting multiple instances of a toolview.


Restricting kdevelop to 1 instance per area per toolview type would also make 
it a lot easier to store toolview-configuration like the selection/expansion 
state of trees or filters.


Andreas


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