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List:       ktexteditor-devel
Subject:    Re: Horizontal view, SoC draft
From:       Philippe Fremy <phil () freehackers ! org>
Date:       2008-03-31 8:03:16
Message-ID: 47F09AC4.2030504 () freehackers ! org
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Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> 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?

That would be a split view where the bottom of the first view is 
connected to the top of the second view. Saying it like that, it does 
not sound super difficult to implement...

It's refreshing to see so much creativity around kate by the way.

	Philippe

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