[MassifVisualizer] New feature proposal : Open differents files at one time

Milian Wolff mail at milianw.de
Sat Oct 12 10:16:47 UTC 2013


On Friday 11 October 2013 19:12:34 Arnold Dumas wrote:
> Le 11/10/2013 09:46, Milian Wolff a écrit :
> > On Thursday 10 October 2013 18:03:50 Arnold Dumas wrote:
> >> Le 10/10/2013 14:55, Arnold Dumas a écrit :
> >>> Le 10/10/2013 14:51, Milian Wolff a écrit :
> >>>> On Tuesday 08 October 2013 19:37:34 Arnold Dumas wrote:
> >>>>> Hello everybody,
> >>>>> 
> >>>>> I've tought about a new feature for massif-visualizer. It could be
> >>>>> nice
> >>>>> to open different massif.* at one time.
> >>>>> I've done some UI simulation, please see in the attachements. Before
> >>>>> going through all the implementation stuff, I'd like to collect some
> >>>>> feedback.
> >>>>> Do you guys think it worth it ?
> >>>> 
> >>>> Personally I just looked at the screenshot and didn't find any
> >>>> difference. A
> >>>> friend here had the same issue. Sideways tabs are I think not a good
> >>>> choice
> >>>> here, I'm afraid. They are not very well discoverable.
> >>>> 
> >>>> It is difficult though to find a proper GUI to enable an MDI in massif
> >>>> visualizer. Do you have any other ideas? Maybe we add the documents
> >>>> tab on top
> >>>> and put the graph tabs on bottom? I.e. similar to the custom
> >>>> allocators /
> >>>> massif data?
> >>>> 
> >>>> Bye
> >>> 
> >>> Actually it's not really eye-catching this way, I really need to think
> >>> more about it.
> >>> Your idea seems to be good. I'll do some UI tests later on to see what
> >>> is the best options.
> > 
> > Jup, that looks OK I think. Now, if you could add some icons to the tabs
> > that would be even better. "office-chart-area-stacked" for the stacked
> > diagram, and "kgraphviewer" for the callgraph tab. For the document tabs
> > we can simply use "unknown" or maybe
> > "application-vnd.oasis.opendocument.chart". Otherwise try out "kdialog
> > --geticon blub" and look at the icons to find something you think could
> > fit.
> > 
> > Thanks for working on this!
> > 
> > PS: Please register on the Massif-Visualizer mailing list
> > (https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/massif-visualizer) so that I don't
> > have to manually accept your emails every time there ;-)
> 
> I've already suscribed to the Massif-visualizer mailing list but when I
> attach an image, it sends an extra email to you to check wether it's
> spam or not.
> Regarding to your advices, I've improved the UI by adding the icons on
> each tabs.
> Should I consider this could be the "finalized" UI and work further on
> the code-side ?

Yep, that looks fine now.

Bye!
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Milian Wolff
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