On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 2:14 AM, André Sintzoff
<[email protected]> wrote:
> 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?

This is how the other pop-up toolbars work.  CTRL+F or CTRL+SHIFT+G to
show, ESC or close button to hide.

>>> 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.

The current default has the main toolbar icons visible and the right
side tab icons hidden.

-- 
Steve Borho

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