Re: [Kile-devel] most used symbol list

[Michel L. <mic...@gm...>]

On Monday 23 April 2007 22:22, Thomas Braun wrote:
> I have prepared a patch which adds a "most used symbols" View.
> Because of our nearly 1000 symbols I thought it could be a good idea.
> IMplementation details:

Yes, I really like the idea as well.

> Everytime the user inserts a symbol trough the symbolview the item is added
> to the MUS (most used symbol) view. If the item exists, a reference counter
> is increased.
> If the number of items exceed 30, the item with the lowest reference count
> is removed.

In the best tradition of KDE, could you make this number configurable? And 
maybe also add a switch to remove the MUS view (although it should be shown 
by default, I guess)?

> With this implementation the ordering of the symbols in the MUS view is
> static and of course everything is saved and restored when restarting kile.
>
> A small caveat:
>
> - I had to make the item->keys() even complexer to handle all the
> information, but I think this should be okay, also because outside the
> symbolview nothing has to deal with the symbolview items. And also the
> function extract handles mostly the details.
>
> - And I had to add the icon path to _every_ icon, which increases a bit
> (1000* 74 chars = 100kb) the memory usage but that should be also okay.

I don't think that we need to worry about that too much :-)

Michel