> And also, I learned when I was a little kid that any critical analysis > has to start with presenting the good parts and only afterward exposing > the critiques.
Actually I did. I said the creator improved, e.g. that at least some of the annoyances can be switched off now. When the first version came out I expected much from the trolls and was extremely disappointed. It did not even come close to, e.g. kdevelop. Now at least it plays in the same league. ... > This is why the support for keyboard is so great in QtCreator that one > never (litterally) needs a mouse. Matter of opinion? You said that all of my critique is only matter of opinion. I doubt it. Except for trivial projects coding is inherently a difficult task. It is clearly no matter of opinion that code quality and coding speed decrease in a noisy environment. And why do many ppl. use adblock to switch off animated ads in webpages? Because they generally hate ads? More likely because it is distracting them from the content they actually want to read. So it is absolutely no matter of opinion that animated stuff like popups or tooltips are distracting. Maybe just some ppl. can cope better with it. So features like that should be limited to emergency situations. > Tools(Alt+T)/Options/Editor/Completion. As I already in my first post said: Some of the annoyances can be switched off. > > Would IM(H)O improve the creator tremendously. > > QtCreator is a rather young project. After 20 years in software > development and many editors tested on 3 platforms, I believe it is also > one of the best *environments* equipped with an editor. But this is also > matter of opinion. It is fine. And at least for Qt-Quick there is currently no better alternative. This is the main reason why I care at all. For pure C++ stuff I use a kdevelop version where I patched all the annoying and superfluous informations out myself. But of course this makes it difficult to upgrade. I simply have not the time to do the same for the creator and reapply or even to modify my patches whenever a new version comes out. > And then, of course, there remains at least the > possibility of using another editor, which suits your needs and > requirements better, in its actual form, without you getting involved > or stressed up. It is not that easy. This abuse of tooltips/popups seems to be a general afflictions most editors share. I tried a quite a few. The only remotely usable were eclipse, kdevelop, and the QtCreator. > The initial behaviour that triggered all this out-of-topic thread is > called trolling in the open-source circles I frequent . Haha, I might not be the most pleasant dialogue partner, but you might want to check the usual definition of 'trolling'. My initial post might have been a little rude to the developers of QtCreator, but was far from a troll post. And out-of-topic? Each post and each reply from me and a few others contained a statement whether my initial point is valid or not. I'd say not out-of-topic, but with a huge noise level. ;-) > then you actually care enough about this tool to want to see it > better and make it yours. Exactly. I'd love to use the creator. After all this time, this 'information overflow' I criticised here, is for me the only remaining show stopper. There may be a few other points, which I'd like to see implemented differently, but those are minor and now the advantages of the creator outweigh by far those little flaws, which actually are a matter of opinion. Guido -- GMX DSL Doppel-Flat ab 19,99 €/mtl.! Jetzt auch mit gratis Notebook-Flat! http://portal.gmx.net/de/go/dsl _______________________________________________ Qt-creator mailing list Qt-creator@trolltech.com http://lists.trolltech.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator
