[Eric] Ideas for eric4

[Detlev Offenbach]

> Hi,
>
> Detlev, I guess you still take ides for eric4? I just started it for the
> first time (snapshot 061112) and here are the things that crossed my
> mind:
>
> 1. Nice work ;)

Thanks very much.

>
> 2. Toolbars are cluttered. I think there are too many things on the
> toolbars and there are too many toolbars active by default. A way to
> customize the contents of the toolbars would be really cool, but I guess
> thats not really straight-forward with Qt-only.

Do you know of a tool like this?

>
> 3. Related to the above, the context menu is cluttered too. There are
> too many things in there. It has 2 columns here with a 1050 resolution.

Which one are you talking about?

>
> 4. Please put a Splitter into the preferences. It got a bit better in
> eric4, but that may be only because it doesn't load the translation
> files yet. In eric3 I cannot read all entries in the left list, when the
> settings dialog is opened. A splitter would resolve this quite nicely.

Will be done.

>
> 5. If the integrated help-viewer would have tabs I might throw away my
> konqueror's running for docs ;) But that really is a christmas wishlist
> ;)

I'll add it to the wishlist.

>
> And last but not least one bug: Splitting the view and then closing the
> lower one with Ctrl+W doesn't remove the split (I only have 1 document
> per view open)

Ctrl+W closes the editor. Question: Should a split be removed if it's last 
editor is closed?

>
> Other than that the first impression is quite good. Although I expected
> a bit more visual changes. But then what could you improve on a
> greate IDE ;)

I didn't want to change the visual too much to keep long term users familiar 
with the IDE.

>
> Andreas

Detlev
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Detlev Offenbach
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