From kdevelop-devel Mon Sep 12 19:51:45 2005 From: Alexander Neundorf Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 19:51:45 +0000 To: kdevelop-devel Subject: Re: Too may ways to select files Message-Id: <200509122151.45872.neundorf () kde ! org> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kdevelop-devel&m=112655483321908 Hi, On Wednesday 07 September 2005 00:38, Jens Dagerbo wrote: > Hi, > > This topic comes up with some frequency. While I agree that having all > active, they are all optional plugins, to be enabled/disabled at the users > leisure. > > New File - this abomination just has to go. The functionality is better > accessed through the menu, and the whole plugin just screams out for a > rewrite (have a look at the code..) KDevelop-4 scope. FileCreate (this), > Project templates, code snippets, Abbrev... all share concepts but not > code. All implemented differently. Agreed. > File Groups - I always found it awful, but the basic idea is sound - > grouping of files in an arbitrary and/or rulebased fashion. Needs a > rewrite. Been in my todo since ages. Agreed. > File Tree - this is meant to display the project contents and has > overlapping responsibilities with the project manager display. In fact, for > some project types, this IS the "project management" display. I imagine > with a new (KDev4) look at project management, this could be made > superfluous. See File selector. > File List - this does overlap with the Window menu, that's true. But the > thing to remove is IMHO the window menu. It has much fewer features and > scales worse. The need for this list should be obvious when you have more > than half a dozen documents open - a tabbar becomes very annoying to use (I > run without the tabbar in fact) Completely agreed. I never use the menu for this task. The Ctrl+Altr+/ action (dialog with a line edit, typing a letter brings a list box showing all open iles starting with thsi letter) should be removed and instead be bound to open the file list instead (which has the same and more features). > File Selector - this is a network transperant file browser. Powerful, > generic but with very little direct integration into KDevelop (it's a very > shallow port of a Kate widget), but if you want to open a pdf document off > of a ftp server, this is the tool to use (if you want to do it inside > KDevelop). Very useful, I use it very often. Probably should be merged with the File tree view, since both are very similar and easy to confuse. Bye Alex -- Work: alexander.neundorf@jenoptik.com - http://www.jenoptik-los.de Home: neundorf@kde.org - http://www.kde.org alex@neundorf.net - http://www.neundorf.net _______________________________________________ KDevelop-devel mailing list KDevelop-devel@barney.cs.uni-potsdam.de http://barney.cs.uni-potsdam.de/mailman/listinfo/kdevelop-devel