2010/12/15 Steve Borho <[email protected]>:
> On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 12:50 PM, Steve Borho <[email protected]> wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 10:17 AM, John Sparrow
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> Just some more concrete suggestions to simplify the v2 UI. As it stands I 
>>> think the work bench is far too cluttered - lets go for something more 
>>> Google Chrome, MS Office, Apple iOS etc. Specifically:
>>>
>>> Left hand tree of repositories - can this be moved into a dialog box (does 
>>> it really need to be visible all the time, by default?)
>>
>> The repository registry is a dock widget.  If the user wants it
>> detached, they can drag it off.  It could perhaps default to being
>> hidden on a clean install just like the log dock widget, but it will
>> be made visible anyway if the workbench was started from the start
>> menu or any other shortcut outside of any repository.  Should it
>> default to being detached?
>>
>>> Ditto 'Filter bar' and others - just have a button and hot-key. We don't 
>>> need them eating up screen space all the time. When they've been used, hide 
>>> them again!
>>
>> Agreed.
>
> The filter bar is now opened with CTRL+S and hidden with ESC or the
> close button.  It needs a menu item as well, so it is discoverable.

Is there any sense to align this with the Output Log?
For the Output Log, Ctrl+L is a toggle (same keys to open and to hide).
I would prefer to have also a toggle for the Filter bar.
What do you think?


>> Tab buttons in the bottom right - can these be moved into the button bar? 
>> They only make sense (to me) if they are per-revision, and some certainly 
>> aren't (like the sync tab). Even were they do make sense, I'd prefer all the 
>> buttons to be in one place (at the top) unless there is a compelling reason 
>> otherwise.
>>
>> They could.  In fact, there's already menu actions for them in the
>> view menu.  So it would be just a matter of adding those actions to a
>> new QToolBar, adding that to the workbench toolbar, then hiding the
>> tabs in the repowidget.  Heck, the tabs could even be made optional.
>
> Just pushed these changes.  The right side task tabs are configurable
> via the settings tool and the new task toolbar is configurable via the
> normal toolbar context menu

I'm wondering if the default value for taskbars should be False.

André

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