Usability suggestions and questions

[Milian Wolff]

On Dienstag, 1. Dezember 2015 16:29:20 CET René J.V. Bertin wrote:
> On Monday November 30 2015 18:55:29 Milian Wolff wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> >> If any of the above suggestions/questions can be addressed by someone
> >> who's
> >> not a seasoned Qt/KDE dev (nor a highly expert C++ dev), I'd be happy to
> >> get some pointers and start tweaking!
> >
> >Sure, learning by doing. Settings is going to be hard. The other should be
> >doable. Look into sublime and how it handles Views and ToolViews. For
> >editor views, making them top-level widgets by setting a null parent could
> >be enough already, but then you'll also need to clean them up when the
> >window gets closed etc. pp.
> 
> Good points, and yeah, most of my programming "expertise" comes from
> learning by doing (most of my expertise as a scientist too, in fact :))
> 
> Anyway, I should be almost at the point where I can install the last
> (non-framework) dependencies of KDevelop5, and KDevelop5 is high on the
> todo list now that I have at least an initial fix to the issues I see with
> the use of the "bare-bones" native Qt theme on OS X.
> 
> About that, and referring back to the tabbed editor interface: is KDevelop5
> (or Kate5) still using what I'll call a "tab selector widget" to implement
> editor tabs in the main window?
> 
> Here's what that can end up looking like (the widget which has "Behavior"
> selected). Even if the font issue shown there is solved (or the huge
> default system font is used throughout) there remains another issue: this
> widget was never designed to have as many elements as one might have open
> in KDevelop. I checked with KDevelop4 yesterday; the number of open
> documents is quickly reached where the tabs only show an ellipsis to
> indicate that there is not enough space to show the text (and adding a
> close button doesn't improve anything of course).

Where is your "here" pointing at?

I can't follow you.

Also, please register at the kdevelop mailing list(s) if you plan to send more 
mails, it's tedious for me to keep whitelisting your mails.

Bye

-- 
Milian Wolff
mail at milianw.de
http://milianw.de
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