The best option then is to give the user the choice. Tabs look 'modern' and work well for small numbers of editors but do not scale well.
I used to be a RealBasic fan and the change of that UI to an all- tabbed approach killed the experience for me. On 14 Jul 2009, at 17:04, NOVAimages wrote: > I think multiple windows are also not the best solution ... exactly > because i need to reorganize them all the way. > Also i need to click multiple times to get all windows into the > foreground instead of just one. > > BUT Multiple Monitors IS an issue, that is true. > I'm in the happy solution that all of my screens have the same > height so > i can just make the qtcreator window larger and add addtional tilings > and done. > But if you have different screensizes it IS a problem for sure. > > > > Daniel Price schrieb: >> I also want to say that tabs are not the best way to handle things. I >> know several IDEs use them but that does mean they are optimum. I >> seem >> to spend a lot of time in MSVC re-organizing and deleting tabs as >> opposed to actually writing code! They stop working once you have >> more >> than 5 tabs. >> >> The problem is that Creator, like MSVC, uses a single window. I've >> found that CodeWarrior and XCode running in 'project' mode offer the >> best solution - that is a single project window listing files with >> the >> file contents themselves in separate editors. That way you are free >> to >> organize the workspace as you please and it works well across >> multiple >> monitors. >> >> This would be a major change to Creator of course... >> >> On 14 Jul 2009, at 16:29, Coda Highland wrote: >> >> >>> I'll reply to this briefly, as this has been debated up one side and >>> down the other... >>> >>> Creator essentially has tabs, but they're presented as a drop-down >>> menu instead of tabs. It's similar to what Xcode does, though >>> slightly >>> better in my opinion. >>> >>> Ctrl+Tab/Ctrl+Shift+Tab (Option instead of Ctrl on Mac) switches >>> between open documents. >>> >>> Using tabs instead of this dropdown is less scalable; you can only >>> fit >>> a few tabs horizontally across the width of the window before you >>> run >>> out of space and either have to scroll, elide filenames, or both, >>> and >>> don't forget it has to share space with the other widgets sharing >>> that >>> bar along the top. >>> >>> The dropdown allows the interface to remain consistent and elegant >>> even when you have many, many documents open. >>> >>> /s/ Adam Higerd >>> >>> On 7/14/09, Ilyes Gouta <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi there, >>>> >>>> Multi Tab editing is now the de-facto standard way for developers >>>> to >>>> edit their code on numerous IDEs, and it would be really nice to >>>> have >>>> it in QtCreator too. >>>> >>>> AutoHide, is for the lower build (compiler messages) window to >>>> "auto-hide" as soon as the developer's mouse cursor leaves the said >>>> window as soon as the compilation finishes. We can implement this >>>> feature too for the project's files explorer, the goal being to >>>> offer >>>> the most of the screen area to the source code editing window. >>>> >>>> Any chance to get these into the next releases of QtCreator? >>>> >>>> Best regards, >>>> Ilyes Gouta. >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Qt-creator mailing list >>>> [email protected] >>>> http://lists.trolltech.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator >>>> >>>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Qt-creator mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> http://lists.trolltech.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Qt-creator mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.trolltech.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator >> > > > -- > ------------------- > Dipl. Inf.(FH) Thomas Ganshorn > NOVAimages > software media&more > > _______________________________________________ > Qt-creator mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.trolltech.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator _______________________________________________ Qt-creator mailing list [email protected] http://lists.trolltech.com/mailman/listinfo/qt-creator
