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[Roland Krause]

The key to all this is, that it should be made configurable!
Roland

--- Ralf Nolden <nolden at kde.org> wrote:
> On Mittwoch, 22. August 2001 11:57, you wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> while I agree that the configurability for the default should be
> improved 
> here, I still doubt that the output view is a better place for this.
> This is 
> because generally expanding the treeview area by moving the panner
> devider to 
> the right works for most to see everything they need, plus the output
> view is 
> very limited in its vertical space which makes it a lot harder to
> unfold. 
> You're not coming around the fact that the debug watch window is a
> treeview 
> and having a treeview on the bottom by default is a big general no-no
> in GUI 
> design. So adding more customizability in 3.0 but leaving the default
> should 
> do the trick IMHO.
> 
> Ralf
> 
> > The debug (watch) tab in the classview is, IMHO, in the wrong tab
> control.
> > I think it would be much better in the Output view tab control.
> >
> > My reasoning for this is that it is very annoying to have to
> constantly
> > scroll back and forth to see the variable name and then its value.
> If these
> > were in a long horizontal control (like output view) there's no
> need to
> > scroll.
> >
> > Now, an argument against this is that you can quickly see many
> variables if
> > you use the classview control. But I personally only want one or a
> few
> > select variables when I'm debugging a specific problem, and I can
> add those
> > in a watch window. It's really of no use to me to be able to see
> all class
> > attributes without scrolling up or down (and let's not forget,
> those are
> > *without* their values because the window is too narrow).
> >
> > I realize I can yank the watch tab off classview and put it into
> output
> > view. I think that's *great*, except:
> >
> > 1) Most people don't realize it's possible
> > 2) The default location should be the most useable
> > 3) The text for the tab doesn't appear if you have "icons only" for
> the
> > Classview (because it's still considered part of the classview
> control)
> > 4) KDevelop doesn't remember it's placement between restarts.
> >
> > - Bud
> 
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Roland Krause
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