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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Advice on Qt User interface
From:       Chani <chanika () gmail ! com>
Date:       2009-10-28 23:48:58
Message-ID: 200910281648.59163.chanika () gmail ! com
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On October 28, 2009 16:03:19 Aurélien Gâteau wrote:
> Parker Coates a écrit :
> > On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 23:51, Christoph Feck wrote:
> >> Using Designer UI files rather than handwritten C++ code has some
> >> advantages:
> >>
> >> + Obviously, this is WYSIWYG "coding", so you aren't surprised later.
> >> You can even quickly test with different styles and fonts.
> >
> > I think you can argue this one either way. Sure with Designer you see
> > the widget layout in real time, but I find specific details are easy
> > to miss and can lead to surprises later.
> >
> > For example, not to long ago I had to clean up a rather crufty UI
> > file. It'd had been edited by a bunch of people over a bunch of years
> > and needed a clean up. Sure I got to see the layout results, but I was
> > constantly finding that random widget had random properties set. "Oh,
> > that widget has wordWrap enabled? Why would it have wordWrap? It only
> > contains 'Name:'. It should never have to wrap." "What is that widget
> > doing way over there, now? Oh, there's a spacer there. And that spacer
> > has an arbitrary minimum width. Why?"
> 
> Something I would like to see in Designer is the ability to attach
> comments to widgets or to widget properties. This would make it possible
> to document why this widget as this particular property.

ooh, +1

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