[Qt-creator] feedback and suggestions

[Kai Koehne]

On Wednesday 05 November 2008 17:15:10 ext Franck Meckum wrote:
> Hi!
>
> First, I want to thank the Qt Creator developers for their great work!
> I really like the speed/responsiveness of the ui, even with projects
> having 500+ files.  So far, Qt Creator is working great under Linux/
> MacOS and has most of the needed features already implemented (or
> planed). Keep on rockin'!

:)

> Feature requests:
> - display the name of the project file and the current version in the
> titlebar of qtcreator. As version, either use the revision from
> subversion/hg/...  or VERSION from the .pro file. This would be
> usefull when working with multiple project-files  (and different
> versions) opened.

I'm not sure about that. Right now the Session name + "Qt Creator" is 
displayed in the title bar. You and others have so far suggested to show:
- the current project file
- the project file revision
- the current file
- the status of the current file (edited or not)
I'm sure there are also people who would suggest
- the file revision
- the current build configuration
- ...
I don't think that it is sensible to show more than two or three things there.

A workaround for you might be to use different sessions for the different 
versions of the project.

> - add something like "Open With"->"external application..." in the
> contextmenu within the project view, e.g. to open ui files outside
> QtCreator using the external designer.

Agreed :)

> - open files/groups in an external window for better use of multiple
> monitors (instead of splitting the current view)

That's on the long term feature list (read: most probably not for 1.0)

> Problem so far:
> It seems like the code-completion does not work with external
> libraries referenced using an environment variable
>    INCLUDEPATH += $(PRJDEPS)/include/libSomething
> vs
>    INCLUDEPATH += /projects/build/v1/include/libSomething  (working)

The problem is that we can't use the exactly same pro file parser that qmake 
uses: We want to also get the files that are e.g. in a scope for a different 
architecture (You want to work on your windows specific files even if you're 
under linux). That's why there will be always issues like that. Anyhow, we'll 
look into fixing this particular one.

Thank you for your feedback!

Kai Koehne

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Kai Köhne
Software Engineer
Nokia, Qt Software