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List:       kwrite-devel
Subject:    Re: [RFC] new Interface to provide custom label/line
From:       Andreas Pakulat <apaku () gmx ! de>
Date:       2008-04-10 7:32:47
Message-ID: 20080410073242.GB14299 () morpheus ! apaku ! dnsalias ! org
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On 10.04.08 00:56:50, Dominik Haumann wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 April 2008, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > On 12.01.08 12:26:05, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > > On 12.01.08 13:48:47, Hamish Rodda wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 6 Jan 2008 03:48:12 am Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > for KDevelop4 I'd like to have support for showing a custom label
> > > > > for each line of a text file. I don't yet have any specific idea
> > > > > how to implement this as I don't have much (if any) experience how
> > > > > you guys design the KTE interfaces.
> > > >
> > > > Moving to ktexteditor-devel, where the api stuff should be
> > > > discussed...
> > >
> > > Oh, wasn't aware that it exists. Thanks.
> > >
> > > > > Why feature-wishes are: Setting a text which is shown on a new
> > > > > border similar to the linenumbers, changing the background for the
> > > > > text and providing tooltip information for that text. The text can
> > > > > be set for each line in the file.
> > > >
> > > > What do you plan to do with this interface?
> > >
> > > Showing the authors userid directly on the border.
> > >
> > > > What should happen when the text is too long?
> > >
> > > Add an elipsis. I think using a small (maybe configurable) fixed font
> > > and limiting this to maybe 10 or 12 chars should be quite ok.
> > >
> > > >  How wide should the border column be?
> > >
> > > See above, 10 to 12 chars maybe. Its really intended just for very
> > > little information directly shown, most important for VCS is the
> > > username and also the coloring to see which parts of a file where
> > > changed together. Anything else would be in a tooltip when hovering
> > > over the border...
> >
> > Ok, so I've finished a first implementation for the interface and
> > adjusted the interfaces themselves a bit more too. It works quite fine
> > now I think and it seems to be quite fast.
> >
> > Cross-Posting to kwrite-devel to get comments on the implementation.
> >
> > If anybody spots breakages of code style just let me know the place and
> > I'll see that I fix it. Unfortunately the code I touched had a couple of
> > different styles so I tried to pick one thats used widely.
> >
> > Any comments welcome, there's one problem which I don't have time today
> > (maybe not before the weekend) to tackle: The highlighting-border is not
> > properly drawn on word-wrapped lines.
> >
> > Patches:
> >
> > kte-interfaces:
> > www.apaku.de/vardata/kte_annotation_iface.diff
> >
> > kate-implementation (including a small test for katetest):
> > www.apaku.de/vardata/kate_impl_annotation.diff
> >
> > Andreas
> 
> I'd like to postpone the review to the Kate Developer Sprint in two days. 
> I'm pretty sure it'll get accepted then.

I didn't expect anything else. As it stands now I probably won't get
around coding the fix for word-wrapped-lines before monday, but I
already know how to do it.

Andreas

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