Review Request: Make the uses widget nicer.

[Aleix Pol Gonzalez]

> On Nov. 13, 2012, 8:44 a.m., Torbjoern Klatt wrote:
> > First of all: The reworked widget looks waaaay better and actually becomes really useful now :D (I wasn't aware, that it wasn't useful before, though)
> > 
> > I've got one little wish as a user: Would it be possible to add some "collapse/expand all" button or item in the context menu? I know, it's unrelated to your changes but could be added while your'r at it anyway.
> > 
> > Thank you a lot for this improvement. I'm already using it in production :)
> 
> Sven Brauch wrote:
>     Yes, I have already considered this. Should be easy; I'll have a look at it later.

What about having it always expanded? It doesn't look like it's a user will want to spend time configuring what it looks like. This would reduce some complexity in the view.


- Aleix


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On Nov. 14, 2012, 5:09 p.m., Sven Brauch wrote:
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> (Updated Nov. 14, 2012, 5:09 p.m.)
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> Review request for KDevelop, KDE Usability 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> I will add a few comments to the patch to explain what I was doing.
> 
> 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/
> The new useswidget after the latest updates
>   http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/107296/s/822/
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> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Sven Brauch
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