Alexander Klenin wrote: > I think that while Lazarus IDE has many great features, they are not well > organized. Various Lazarus developers added convenience features with > a separate user interfaces, so the features are dispersed all over UI > and hard to discover. > > IMHO the good way forward is to consolidate some feature groups into > a common UI, thus giving greater exposure to all included features. > > I realize that may be a controversial topic, as developers might "defend" > their pet features from consolidation, stating that consolidated UI is less > convenient than specialized ones, but I think there should be a balance of > uniformity versus specialization, and right now this balance is tipped far > on the specialization side. > > If there is a general agreement, I can prepare detailed proposal for > consolidation, > but as a quick sketch: > 1) "Find procedure" should be merged into "Code explorer" > Ok by me. (I never used it :) ) It's partly there anyway.
> 2) "Find in files", "Messages" and "Code observer" should be merged together, > with interface most resembling "Find in files" > IMHO, this (point 2) would be even more a specialization. Also I can't see how those 3 relate at all. Anyway, for that lets wait for docking. > 3) "Unit list" (Ctrl+F12) should be merged into "Project Inspector" > 4) "Find unused units" should be merged into "Unit dependencies" > I was thinking "Unit dependencies" could also be merged to "Project Inspector".... > ... and so on > what about: - keybard layouts? - Menu layouts? Best Regards Martin _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lazarus.freepascal.org http://www.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus
