[Eric] Ideas for eric4

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 08.12.06 19:40:43, Detlev Offenbach wrote:
> 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?

No, unless you mean what it should look like (I attach a screenshot of
the one from kdevelop, kde3). Basically you need to lists with the
actions (icon+name), add/remove button and a chooser for the toolbar to
configure.

> > > > 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?

Right, sorry I thought "empty file" would be clear enough.

> > > > 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).

Oh, right. Missed that :)

Andreas

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