[rkward-devel] UI wishlist

[Michel Lang]

Am Mittwoch, 18. April 2007 23:46 schrieb Prasenjit Kapat:
> > - file system browser tab, as included in kate, to easy access generated
> > files as PDFs from within rkward.
>
> That would be nice, but viewing non-R (.R, .RData, etc) files would
> need to spawn a different process (not a child process), like kpdf (or
> xpdf or..) for PDFs, which will have to be outside RKWard. Does any
> IDE do that? Kate (ok, kate is not an IDE) doesnot. If you try to open
> a pdf file from kate's file browser tab, it will try open it as a text
> file in the editor, rather than starting a completely different
> process with kpdf (or xpdf or..). I do not remember if Kile does
> that.. Will try it when I get home.

Yep, you're right. I had in mind that there was a (konqueror) context menu 
item to launch an external process like kpdf. Nevertheless a file system 
browser tab could become handy.

> As of now, Alt+4 works to show/hide the R consolde window. So, if you
> are in a script file, and R console is in hide mode then, pressing
> Alt+4 (once) will pull up the R console and set the cursor focus to
> it; if R console is already shown, then pressing Alt+4 (TWICE, hide
> and then show) will do the job. Other option (as I sometimes do) is to
> detach the R console window and use Alt+Tab.

Many Thanks! :)


Best regards, Michel