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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    [Bug 124352] New: Ideas for improvments of Kile UI : get rid of the
From:       Jean-Michel Fayard <jmfayard () gmail ! com>
Date:       2006-03-27 10:05:01
Message-ID: 20060327120458.124352.jmfayard () gmail ! com
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           Summary: Ideas for improvments of Kile UI : get rid of the
                    toolbar complexity and an improved sidebar
           Product: kile
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: SuSE RPMs
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: wishlist
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: Jeroen.Wijnhout kdemail net
        ReportedBy: jmfayard gmail com


Version:            (using KDE KDE 3.5.0KDE 1.2)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMsSuSE RPMs

I think that Kile UI could see dramatic imrovements without loosing any power :

First : the tabs of the sidebar should always have the same size and not just an icon \
but also a text. Second : empty the toolbars. There far too much icons and not enough \
text. 

For this, I suggest to have much of the content of the toolbar to go in the sidebar, \
                and to have only 4 tabs : 
* Structure
* Symbols
* Compile
* Files & Project

Tab structure : business as usual
Tab Files & Projet : idem

== Tab Symbols == 
The aim of this tab is to merge all kind of latex symbols in the toolbar and in the \
sidebars 

/----------------------------\
> Insert latex symbols      |
> -----
> /------------\ /---------\  |
> > <icon>    | |  <icon> |  |
> > Relations  | | Arrows  |  |
> \------------/ \---------/  |
> /------------\ /--------- \ |
> > <icon>    | |  <icon>  | |
> > Misceall.  | |Delimiters| |
> \------------/ \----------/ |
> /------------\ /--------- \ |
> > <icon>    | |  <icon>  | |
> > Greek letter| |Special characters| |
> \------------/ \----------/ |

This first part is inpired by how K3B lets you choose between an audioCD, a data CD, \
...

When I click on Greek letter, the tab will be remplaced by the actual tab with the \
greek letters that we have now. Just add a backlink to the main 'Symbols' tab like in \
the following proposal for amarok : http://dot.kde.org/1139952529/1140021101/

The second half of this sidebar tab will have the icons of the toolbar which have \
something to do with inserting some latex symbols that is :  << part | label | tiny | \
B U I | f(x) | ... | mathematics symbols | left) right) >>

The last part could be like : 

> Search in Latex reference :   |
> [ <Enter your term> ]         |
\--------------------------------/



== the Compile sidebar tab ==
This would be

/----------------------------\
> Latex : 
> [RUN latex]   [stop]
> ERROR   : [<-- previous] | [next error -->]
> Warning : [<-- previous] | [next error -->]
> Badbox  : [<-- previous] | [next error -->]
> 
> [View PDF]        [View DVI]
> [Convert to PDF]  [Convert to DVI]
> 
> <everything else that belongs here>
\----------------------------/

I hope you get the idea, and hope it can contribute to make KILE a KILlEr appliation.
 


Anyway : I take the opportunity of this bug report to thank all the developers for \
this wonderful application.


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