On Thu, Nov 26, 2020 at 09:52:06PM -0500, Michael Barth wrote: > Hello! > > I’m interested in adding support for a tab based editor for Qt Creator > either as an option or plugin. I’m aware that the FAQ says that a lack > of tabs is a deliberate design decision. I also know that tab plugins > do exist, but they’re a bit old, janky, and lack comfort features that > most IDEs have. > > Some of those things like a lack of a right click context menu, middle > click closing of tabs, and actually reopening tabs based on the session > are things that I can do with just modifying an existing plugin. I’ve > been working on this. > > However there are some things I can’t do because a decent chunk of the > editor manager code is behind non-exported private code like the > EditorWindow, EditorView, EditorArea, and etc. I believe I can create > splits/windows, but there’s no way I can see to keep track of where an > IEditor comes from or modify an editor window to give it its own tab > bar. > > Other IDEs use tabs as a way to split views or detach into new windows > that also have tabs that can also be split. This is something I can’t > do through a plugin because of the private code mentioned earlier. > > So that leaves me with two options: > > 1: I can refactor some of the private editor manager code to be exposed > so that I can just leave this as a plugin that doesn’t get in the way > of the “no tabs” design decision. > > 2: I can work to re-implement the plugin natively into Qt Creator as an > optional, non-default behavior. > > I just want to know if it’s okay to do one or the other or if this is > something that people are dead set against. I just want this to be a > feature that’s easily accessible to everyone.
In principle it is fine to export non-exported parts for re-use, so the usual preference is your option 1. Whether this is ok in this case depends a bit on how intrusive the necessary changes are. Andre' _______________________________________________ Qt-creator mailing list Qt-creator@qt-project.org https://lists.qt-project.org/listinfo/qt-creator
