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List:       ktexteditor-devel
Subject:    Re: Horizontal view, SoC draft
From:       Andreas Pakulat <apaku () gmx ! de>
Date:       2008-03-30 13:31:43
Message-ID: 20080330133143.GB26070 () morpheus ! apaku ! dnsalias ! org
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On 30.03.08 14:45:08, Christoph Cullmann wrote:
> Am Mittwoch 19 März 2008 17:20:32 schrieb Matej Svejda:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I'm sure you guys know that Google SoC is just around the corner. I'd
> > like to take that opportunity to implement an idea that has been
> > floating around in my head for a while now. Probably it has already
> > been implemented somewhere, a quick search on the Internet didn't show
> > up anything though.
> >
> > My idea is a horizontal view for text-editing. Whats that? Well, let
> > me explain... During the last couple of years 16:10 monitors have
> > become kind-of standard, especially in notebooks. While it makes sense
> > on some levels (human sight has roughly the same format, at least I
> > read so on the Internet) and smaller black stripes when watching
> > movies, it sucks for coding. A lot of projects have coding guidelines
> > where the max line-length is 80 chars. But even without coding
> > guidelines most lines of code don't take up a lot of horizontal space.
> > The result of this is a big, fat unused area of screen-space on the
> > right-hand side of the text-editor window. This is where my idea kicks
> > in it. I'd like to implement the ability to have multiple vertical
> > boxes stacked next to each other (horizontally) with the text flowing
> > through them when scrolling in KatePart. I made a mockup [1],
> > hopefully it can help to explain what I'm talking about. The idea
> > would be to have as many as the user wants (2 make sense with a
> > resolution of 1280x800, but with a resolution of 1680x1050 3 could be
> > used).
> >
> > I have moderate C++/Qt coding skills (PHP has been the language I
> > wrote most software in so-far). This metronome [2] and this runner [3]
> > have been written by me.
> >
> > So...
> >    What do you guys think of my idea? Is it doable? Is too easy/hard
> > for a SoC project?
> >    What part of the Kate-Part source code should I have a look at?
> I think this is a good idea, the view/ subdir should be the relevant part, not 
> sure how intrusive that would be. Sorry for long delay, but got some time 
> problems atm.

Isn't this exactly what Split View does in kate, kdevelop and possibly
other apps using kate as editor? Or am I misunderstanding something?

Andreas

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