It seems to me that some "low-hanging fruit" along these lines would be to offer "small icons, no labels" and "horizontal across the top" modes for the left navigation bar. That should be easier to implement with fewer UI compromises to discuss, and would at least give users who care some choices about where to spend their screen real estate. I use two monitors in portrait mode, where others often have a wide-screens, so it's really nice to have options that free up horizontal width.
<>< <>< <>< Bryce Schober On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 7:29 AM, tbp <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 2:55 PM, André Pönitz <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Having the possibility to make the left pane much slimmer would be really > > nice, making it completely optional might need some extra thought because > > the progress notifications end up there. Maybe moving them to the status > > bar is an option in this case. > I'd argue there's no crucial loss of functionality, outputs may still > pop up even with the status bar disabled. > To me that's entirely superfluous, but, yes, migrating them to the > status bar makes sense. But then what if the status bar is also > disabled? > Thus the question is: are progress notifications mandatory (read not > eligible for elision, ever)? > > > Making the status bar optional is probably not feasible as it contains > > the Locator (and in case of FakeVim the "command line"). > Would you settle for those locator & command line to only appear, down > there where the status bar should be, when invoked? > > > In addition I think it would make a lot of sense to have the left panel > > shown and hidden depending on mode. It's generally less useful in > > Debug mode where one is more interested in the contents of the > > tool views then the project view or such. > I concur. But for the sake of this discussion, i'd prefer to only > argue about two global modes A) all bells & whistles B) uncluttered, > because then it's easier to reason that, in mode B) the user is > trading off what i'd call gadgets for code display and to make a list > of what's mandatory and what's not. > _______________________________________________ > Qt-creator mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.qt.nokia.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator >
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