[Uml-devel] [Merge request] New features

Mon May 9 21:28:06 UTC 2011

Our timetable on this is short since feature freeze is on Thursday.
I'm at the Ubuntu summit and not sure when I'll have a chance to look
at it.  Anyone else able to look at it and give an opinion?

Jonathan

On Mon, May 09, 2011 at 02:04:44AM -0400, Emmanuel Lepage-Vallée wrote:
>    Hi, I my name is Emmanuel Lepage Vallee (Elv13 on IRC). This is my first
>    post on this list, some of you may be aware of my recent work on Umbrello
>    or have seem me in the past decade on IRC.
> 
>    Recently, I have put quite a lot of time on Umbrello recently working on
>    UI elements I disliked or prevented umbrello from being used to do real
>    work at a decent speed. My main contribution is a new input system for
>    classifier and other related UML objects. This system is/will be making it
>    easier to add element to classifier items (more to come, but classifier
>    for now). It use/will use a dock instead of a legion of keyboard
>    unfriendly popups. It currently look like that:
> 
>    http://img88.imageshack.us/i/blender101.png/
> 
>    The idea is not new, some other modeling software such as Oracle (TM)
>    MySQL Workbench already use similar input system. It already work really
>    well with the mouse. The keyboard part need some work, as it need a custom
>    even filter to manage tabs and enter corectly. This work is still in
>    progress. There is also some bugs and unconnected slots. I will need to
>    make some test cases to be sure everything work. The changes are semi
>    invasive. 95% of them just hook to the model. Some other take existing
>    code and put it into new widgets, such as one for the operation/attribute
>    type, as this code is shared in many new and existing places.
> 
>    The other changes you can see in this screenshot is a statusbar zoom
>    widget. This widget is getting quite common in KDE4 and is easier to use
>    than the current toolbar slider. It is a little cool change, nothing big.
>    The fact that the text is centered is a bug, I just need time to fix it.
> 
>    The other change is moving the toolbar to the left and dock to the right
>    and merge them. While undo view is useful, it may not be required by
>    default. As for the documentation dock, I think it's nice to have it. I am
>    not sure if it need to be separated from the model treeview. The
>    classifier input system take a lot of place when it is visible, so it
>    looked better like that, not sure about usability however.
> 
>    There is quite a lot of other changes I want to make too:
>    Double click: return to cursor when the toolbar item is pressed once and
>    lock if the item is double clicked. Workbench/Vision/Draw/MS
>    Office/OpenOffice/All other work like that. It will require an event
>    filter.
>    Better item tree: The current treeview is terrible. It show too much
>    stuffs like items from other diagrams. A little filter, removal of
>    unneeded items, better default expansion settings would be nice, someday.
>    Auto add items to the view during import: Having to add items in the
>    canvas by hand after importing them is bad. Auto import of the projects
>    classes would be nice (not all classes, just the project ones)
>    "Fit" zoom: this is broken in the widget right now, I wait from the Camila
>    GSoC work.
>    Handle all types of diagrams: Some diagrams variant would need some love.
>    I am thinking about dedicated helpers for code Classes and database
>    diagram while they are the same in theory,
>    Remove zoom from toolbar: well, it is not needed anymore to be there by
>    default
>    New icon set: I am working on it, it's getting nice, but the small
>    variants are not yet as nice as I would like them to be.
>    KAction for everything: there is a lot of actions missing all over the
>    place like adding a class in the canvas.
>    Multiple view at once: using a qsplitter to view more than once diagram at
>    once. It's useful when you have to base one diagram on an existing one. I
>    tried, but I failed to get it to work without bugs, so I will wait for the
>    new canvas to be ready too.
> 
>    Those features are TODO, it is obviously too late for 4.7. However, I
>    think my current work on the classifier is more then useful enough to be
>    part of 4.7. I added it on the soft feature freeze so I can merge it until
>    may 12. I will not enable it by default just yet, it need more polishing
>    and bug fixing, but it should be quite strong when 4.7 is being released.
>    So this is a formal merge request:
> 
>    Can I merge my current work once I have unified the indentation and
>    variable naming (95% done):
>    -The dock inout system for classifier items
>    -The zoom widget
>    -The toolbar on the left with small icons
>    -The removal of zoom items from the default toolbar
>    -Disable the undo view by default
> 
>    You can try the features by cloning this repository
>    git at github.com:Elv13/Umbrello-ng.git If something is broken, try the
>    previous commit. It's still buggy, but it work. As for other things, like
>    porting umbrello to git, this will wait until this code is merged as the
>    deadline is quite soon. Any feedback welcome. I will take care or merging
>    what is ready once/if I get the approval to do it.
> 
>    Thanks for reading, answer soon please, the deadline is coming, I know I
>    am late too, but I talked about it on IRC since like 2 months.

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