Re: [Tora-develop] tora qt4 thoughts and issues

[Mike J. <mrj...@mi...>]

hi nathan,

On Sat, 2007-12-29 at 14:52 -0600, Neulinger, Nathan wrote:
> Haven't started to use it regularly yet, but have noticed that it
> appears to be quite usable now.

getting there... finally. :-) you aughtta give it a shot though. i've
fixed a lot of crashers these last few weeks. tora should be fairly
reliable now. the only one left that i'm aware of is some an
intermittent crash on close that seems to come from legacy
displayMenu(Q3PopupMenu) code... that'll get ported soon, too.

(it never happens while running in gdb so... i'll worry about it
later. :-)

> Couple thoughts:
> 
> 1. Does anyone actually use the TOAD bindings? That seems like a vestige
> of old code that might be worth dropping to clean it out, perhaps
> instead having user customizable bindings instead, and that just be a
> provided config.
> 
> 2. tora-qt4 is always opening up in fully maximized window for me,
> tora-qt3 doesn't do that.

works for me... i'm going to eventually redo a lot of the conf code so
this'll probably get fixed by saving the window state on close rather
than the maximize bool it uses now.

> 3. Is there any way to get the toolbar spacing a little tighter? New
> build seems to take a lot more screen real estate.

depends on the style used. there's a way i found (would have to google
again). you can change the style in tora's preferences. notice that
motif has pretty small buttons.

you're sure it's no good though? i've gotten used to it and i've moved
around the toolbars so they make more sense when they're using a little
more room. seems quite nice to me. i definitely miss-click less often
and the tools are easier to distinguish.

maybe we could figure a way to keep the horizontal spacing and tweak the
vertical a bit to leave more room for the main widget? i'm not sure how
much i want to do that. too far and it'd look goofy and i like that tora
is now more in line with newer linux apps which have been moving to a
more spacious ui...

> 4. Tables drawn for data don't have a line on the left hand or right
> hand side... looks a little weird to me.

i'm working on porting tolistview right now. it's going to take a while,
but i'll take care of a lot of ui bugs like that while i do.

> 5. In schema browser, can we get the schema popup left aligned in the
> toolbar - this may be more noticeable just because of it popping up full
> screen.

i had put it over there because the connection changer is there and the
worksheet also has it to the right. i thought it was more consistent?

> Overall, looking VERY GOOD!

w00t. :-)

> -- Nathan
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