[Eric] Ideas for eric4

[Detlev Offenbach]

On Thursday 07 December 2006 20:18, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 07.12.06 19:48:30, Detlev Offenbach wrote:
> > > 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?
>
> KDE but thats not really a tool is it ;) Or Qt's designer, you can
> drag&drop actions there, which is basically the same.

That was not what I meant. Do you know of a dialog, that can be used in an 
application to configure the actions shown on a toolbar?

>
> > > 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?
>
> Oops, I mean for an empty file.

So, it's the editor context menu?

>
> > > 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?
>
> I would expect that, else its not really clear where a new file would be
> opened. This problem also has to do with the fact that there's no real
> focus information in Qt4 tabs (sth. that is being worked on, but I'm not
> sure if at Qt or just KDE level).

In eric[34] a new file is opened in the active split. That one is indicated by 
a green LED (on the right side).

Detlev
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