[Kmymoney-devel] Review Request 117620: Remove fixed layout values from the CSV importer UI.

[Cristian Oneț]

> On April 18, 2014, 11:34 a.m., Allan Anderson wrote:
> > Hi Cristian
> > Many thanks.  It had been starting to dawn on me that, when dealing with different distros, it shouldn't be necessary to fiddle about with margins
> > to get things to look right.  I'd suspected that I needed to make some fundamental changes, but wasn't really ready to take the plunge.  Anyway,
> > you've done it for me, so again, thank you.
> > The question now is, where do we go from here?
> > Here, I'd already removed a chunk of code and have been working on details of the UI appearance.  For instance, I don't like to see the size of the
> > table changing height between the different wizard pages, and I don't like to see just partial lines displayed.  Obviously, if the user decides to do
> > a resize, then the decision is his, but without that happening, I don't want to see half lines displayed.  This is mainly to do with whether a
> > horizontal scroll-bar is visible or not.  I have not been able to get that to work correctly.  Sometimes, it is visible but isVisible() returns
> > false, and vice versa I think.  So I've had to calculate the diplayed width and adjust the containing rectangle.  A little work is still needed here.
> > In your pruning, I think you have removed some vertical spacers, which is causing the combo-boxes to shift upwards, leaving a lot of space below.
> > I wish to revert that.  In the separators wizard page, the two combo-boxes are now different sizes, I think because you've removed the form layout I was
> > using.  In the banking wizard, the combo-box sizes are significantly different in width between Linux Mint and Ubuntu.  I don't know about on Windows.
> > These are very minor points, but I'd like to tweak them.
> > I'd decided on a default window height of 10 rows, which has been changed.  Was there a particular reason for that?
> > Between Mint and Ubuntu, the margin values are still different, but now that has no effect on the appearance.  The font sizes are differ too, 9 point
> > against 11 point.  That does affect the appearance.  Should I leave that as is, do you think?  I think probably yes.
> > I can't add a revised patch to your review, but if you agree, I can describe any proposed changes.  I don't want to stray away from your major changes,
> > though, obviously.

"where do we go from here?"

I don't know, it's up to you to decide. If you ask me (after 2 days of going trough csvdialog.cpp) I would suggest to rewrite everything. I know that seems harsh but frankly I didn't see such "tangled up" code in a while. One reading it couldn't quite tell what is essential (necessary) in there and what is trial/error leftover code.

For the UI I would have the following guide:
- keep it simple (your layouts were really, really complicated)
- don't center everything (including messages)
- don't set fix sizes (fixed size policies are OK in the appropriate place - line edits, combos should have a fixed vertical size hint)
- try to use the available space as uniformly as possible (1 page with 2 combos vs. 1 page with 10 combos)
- now we have a dialog (QWizard) inside another dialog (CSVDialog - former widget) which seems a bad idea to me

For the code:
- don't keep everything together (like a big ball of spaghetti), try to break it up into smaller components
- only keep the essential code otherwise you won't be able to spot it later from the clutter

Until the csv importer plugin will not be cleaned up, clean reviewable patches can't be provided because the patches will always look like the code that is patched.


- Cristian


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On April 17, 2014, 9:23 p.m., Cristian Oneț wrote:
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> (Updated April 17, 2014, 9:23 p.m.)
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> Review request for KMymoney and Allan Anderson.
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> Repository: kmymoney
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> Description
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> Remove fixed layout values from the CSV importer UI.
> 
> Also removed a lot of code (a lot still remains) that I think should
> not be in there (like UI control size fine tuning).
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> 
> Diffs
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>   kmymoney/plugins/csvimport/bankingwizardpage.ui d2179bff0504a67a22efbb364f90e089443d8239 
>   kmymoney/plugins/csvimport/completionwizardpage.ui 99db07576265b68c764308bbb3da3cae38b151bd 
>   kmymoney/plugins/csvimport/csvdialog.h 6716ca412db036384d9d8d65f0d1ab40efbe443f 
>   kmymoney/plugins/csvimport/csvdialog.cpp 3ab7f9537acdb369b0c5b781827564e30d9ad396 
>   kmymoney/plugins/csvimport/csvdialog.ui 36e7fd51159a1f7391394b5f00bc22387b0bd8f5 
>   kmymoney/plugins/csvimport/csvimporterplugin.h d2d2f6ca9aeea0709512afcffbad17abea6a315a 
>   kmymoney/plugins/csvimport/csvimporterplugin.cpp 602b4d924c8afc0b34819e47b03b88776319bf0c 
>   kmymoney/plugins/csvimport/introwizardpage.ui 9bd29f5f4339add8790e032f5613ec46c675634d 
>   kmymoney/plugins/csvimport/investmentwizardpage.ui 3744963e5e9a91ad36b8d0fa78839b296c5810f8 
>   kmymoney/plugins/csvimport/investprocessing.cpp d9df90d6b9a6500b499e52ccb3e8734d163765eb 
>   kmymoney/plugins/csvimport/lines-datewizardpage.ui fb10a0e228d7bdee9ca1162edcd0d4b69225d68b 
>   kmymoney/plugins/csvimport/separatorwizardpage.ui 30b2dc7b22ad24b7b2df96332deb25f9c8c76b89 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/117620/diff/
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> Testing
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> For me the importer looks/feel almost like without this.
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> Thanks,
> 
> Cristian Oneț
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