[Uml-devel] [Merge request] New features

[Andi Fischer]

Am 09.05.2011 23:28, schrieb Jonathan Riddell:
> 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.
>
I will have a look at it today ....
Regards,
Andi