Review Request: Make the uses widget nicer.

[Sven Brauch]

> On Nov. 12, 2012, 1:01 p.m., Aleix Pol Gonzalez wrote:
> > Maybe you can add the kde-usability group? Maybe someone there has a good idea :)

I added them -- let's see if somebody there has further ideas. :)


- Sven


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On Nov. 12, 2012, 11:04 a.m., Sven Brauch wrote:
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> (Updated Nov. 12, 2012, 11:04 a.m.)
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> Review request for KDevelop and Milian Wolff.
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> Description
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> TL;DR: Look at the screenshots below. :)
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> Make the uses widget nicer.
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> Main changes include:
>  * Fix contexts not being clickable (they were clickable but didn't work)
>  * Remove the blue arrows; all widgets are expanded by default and can
>    be collapsed with a small link in the text instead. This operation is
>    not common enough to justify such a huge ugly button.
>    (The main problem with the button was that it looked ugly, tough)
>  * Contexts without actual uses are always sorted last.
>  * Add some nice icons to the list.
>  * Remove all the ugly frames.
>  * Make text displaying code use a fixed-width font.
>  * Make the tooltip use a fixed-width font too, make it smaller (just 2
>    lines of context instead of 3), and highlight the line with the use
>    by making it bold-face.
>  * Re-format and rename all the widget headers to be more readable
>    and look nicer.
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> I will add a few comments to the patch to explain what I was doing.
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> Oh and also, I had that impression for quite a while now, but right now I'm pretty sure the find uses feature is broken in some way. Just look at the screenshots: it found way more occurences in the first screenshot than in the second (which happened after a reparse of some projects). And this has nothing to do with my changes. :)
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> Diffs
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>   language/duchain/navigation/useswidget.h ec0440e 
>   language/duchain/navigation/useswidget.cpp 8c01e7c 
>   shell/projectcontroller.cpp 6168066 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/107296/diff/
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> Testing
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> Manual testing; no functional changes were done except for the context link fix.
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> Screenshots
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> Comparsion between the old and the new uses widget.
>   http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/107296/s/821/
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> Thanks,
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> Sven Brauch
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