Re: [Kile-devel] Kile needs a new user interface...

[Thomas B. <br...@ph...>]

On Friday 28 December 2007 15:56, Michel Ludwig wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I think the time has come to redesign Kile's user interface. Especially, as
> the default style of KDE 4.0 displays labels of toolbar buttons, we are
> forced to reduce the number of toolbar buttons.  A current screenshot of
> Kile for KDE4 can be found here:
>
>   http://kile.sourceforge.net/images/kile-kde4.jpg
>
> The questions now is: how should it be done? What toolbar buttons do you
> currently use most?
>
Hello,

okay so I use from the toolbars only the main and build toolbar. The others I 
just don't use because I'm not that mouse-ish. And codecompletion and the 
nifty edit commands are my closest friends so there is no need for them.

I was really suprised about how many users use the toolbar buttons, so I think 
just removing them is not appropriate.

Reading through the BTS I found one bug, 
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=124352, which has some good ideas.

E.g. we could move build/error from the toolbar to the sidebar to get some 
buttons like k3b does. Or what about having the build toolbar as context menu 
of the file tab?

Another idea would be to move the math and editing toolbars to the bottom bar.
The editing stuff is not good at the sidebar, because then one can not see the 
structure view. Although this would be kind of unintuitive compared to other 
editors.

The file watch and stop button can be placed at the same place where the build 
stuff will be, because the current distinction is not good.

Bye,
Thomas