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List:       kdevelop-devel
Subject:    Better toolview
From:       Silvère_LESTANG <silvere.lestang () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-11-29 19:20:39
Message-ID: AANLkTinLzdQXGWKPA_TgnpfQPDX=MuKXCBreKa+BOn=W () mail ! gmail ! com
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Hey,
a lot of plugins and features (Build, Run, Debug, Test and Version Control)
use the standardouputview for displaying what they need to display. But thi=
s
toolview is quite generic and doesn't correspond to the needs of most of
them, and thus make it difficult to users to understand the UI (the previou=
s
and next buttons doesn't always do something and the two buttons "Select
activated item" and "Focus when selecting item" are difficult to understand
and irrelevant sometimes).
I try in the last few days to see if it was possible to improve the
standardouputview to full fit the needs of all plugins and features but I
arrived to the conclusion that it's useless as every plugins have a slightl=
y
different needs.
So I proposed to create a new toolview for each plugins or features which
need one, starting by the Build feature.
I think we need to keep the previous and next item, remove the "Select
activated item" and "Focus when selecting item" buttons and replace them by
a warning and error buttons that we can toggle to display only warnings
and/or errors. I make a little mock up here:
http://www.kdevelop.org/mediawiki/images/b/b8/Build_toolview.png
What do you think about that?

Silv=E8re

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Hey,<br>a lot of plugins and features (Build, Run, Debug, Test and Version Control) \
use the standardouputview for displaying what they need to display. But this toolview \
is quite generic and doesn&#39;t correspond to the needs of most of them, and thus \
make it difficult to users to understand the UI (the previous and next buttons \
doesn&#39;t always do something and the two buttons &quot;Select activated item&quot; \
and &quot;Focus when selecting item&quot; are difficult to understand and irrelevant \
sometimes).<br> I try in the last few days to see if it was possible to improve the \
standardouputview to full fit the needs of all plugins and features but I arrived to \
the conclusion that it&#39;s useless as every plugins have a slightly different \
needs.<br> So I proposed to create a new toolview for each plugins or features which \
need one, starting by the Build feature.<br>I think we need to keep the previous and \
next item, remove the &quot;Select activated item&quot; and &quot;Focus when \
selecting item&quot; buttons and replace them by a warning and error buttons that we \
can toggle to display only warnings and/or errors. I make a little mock up here: <a \
href="http://www.kdevelop.org/mediawiki/images/b/b8/Build_toolview.png">http://www.kdevelop.org/mediawiki/images/b/b8/Build_toolview.png</a><br>
 What do you think about that?<br><br>Silvère<br><br>



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