Re: [anjuta-devel] Project manager UI suggestions

[Sébastien Granjoux <seb sfo free fr>]

Hi,

Le 04/01/2011 11:40, Johannes Schmid a écrit :
> I like the idea of the "Add libraries" dialog. Sounds much more like
> that task the user wants to achieve.

Ok, I will try to see what can be done here.


> We started that a bit on the hackfest but still I think the user doesn't
> really need to understand autotools to write an application and we
> should leave it out of his way most of the time.

Ok, I think it's better if the user doesn't need to take care of this 
neither.


> Haven't looked at it but the idea sounds good. Adding them only to the
> labels is what other applications usually do.

Ok, I will remove the tooltip in the entry.


> Just an idea, don't know if that's possible:
> The whole properties dialog could be a GtkTreeView which display a list
> like that:
>
> CFLAGS   | -g -O2
> CPPFLAGS |
> etc.
>
> Either we only show the flags that are really set and give the user an
> add/remove button where the first column becomes a combobox where the
> user can choose the appropriate flag or we just grey out all flags that
> aren't used.

That's an idea but I'm already using a tree view for some properties.


> Of course anything that isn't related to CFLAGS/JAVAFLAGS/VALAFLAGS,
> whatever would still be a single entry or checkbox.

In my idea, it's for all properties including things not linked to 
FLAGS. By example, I have target properties like "Do not use prefix" or 
"Keep target path" which are, I think, quite rare.


> Hmm, that one is tricky. Ideally, we would want to provide a shortcut to
> edit the first executable target because that is what new users will hit
> first.

I can open by default the property of the first target if nothing is 
selected in the project view but the project properties dialog is 
probably useful too for changing the version number.

Else I could add a treeview in the properties dialog to select the node 
(like it's already done in the Add Source, Add Group, Add Target and Add 
module dialog) but contrary to these dialog, it is possible to have 
several properties dialog open at the same time (on different node) so 
it means quite a few tree view.

I don't like that much this feature of the Add * dialogs. Perhaps a nice 
solution would be to have a combo box containing the selected node and 
have tree view in the dropdown list if we want to select another node. I 
don't know if it's possible though.

> Another idea would be to add some buttons to the project-view window
> that make it more obvious that you can edit somewhere there than the
> popup-menu.
> But this needs some more discussion probably.

Yes, I will think about this and perhaps look at other IDE.


Regards,

Sébastien