From kwrite-devel  Mon Jun 09 08:48:11 2014
From: Kevin Funk <kfunk () kde ! org>
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2014 08:48:11 +0000
To: kwrite-devel
Subject: Inline widgets in the editor view
Message-Id: <3013999.fJ5vbA89JH () kerberos>
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Hey guys,

Working a bit with Coverity (static analysis tool, [1]) lately, I've come 
across this nice way [2] of reporting errors. Xcode has a similar way of 
reporting errors [3].

I think, having some basic infrastructure for displaying this kind of inline 
widgets would be beneficial not just for KDevelop land.

How hard would it be implement something like that for Kate?

Obvious advantages of these inline widgets compared to other solutions:
* Information text is close to the range it's attached to
* The widget doesn't hide other editor contents
  (as opposed to some tooltip solution)
* No user interaction required to retrieve the information text
  (it's always there)

Greets

[1] http://www.coverity.com/
[2] http://security.coverity.com/static/media/img/goto-fail.png
[3] http://richarddingwall.name/wp-content/uploads2/2008/06/xcode-build-error.png

-- 
Kevin Funk
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