[Qt-creator] QtCreator vs QDevelop Features?

[Rodney Dyer]

Andre Poenitz wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 10:57:39AM +0100, Sebastian Fischer wrote:
>   
>> EZ> Well, "common" depends a lot on the platform, e.g. Xcode (which is  
>> EZ> quite common on the Mac) doesn't use Tabs :)
>>
>> The general trend seems to be to have Tabs nowadays for open documents
>> (like many browsers have), but it's not
>>     
>
> The problem with tabs is that it does not scale well. You can see at most
> ten or twelve files that way, beyond that tabs are basically useless as
> they almost always show the "wrong" files as soon as your "working set"
> contains more than a few dozen files.s
>
> And having to change habits depending on the size of the current project
> is not really a nice prospect either...
>
>   
The problem with tabs, IMHO, is that I would rather maximize my screen 
real estate with code not toolbars, and tab bars, and other meaningless 
cruft.  Being an emacs user the split horizontal thing is about as good 
as it gets for me where I can have *.H & *.C files next to each other 
and hack away.  The way I see it, tabs steal screen area that I should 
have to view my code and if I need to know what is open and look at it 
then have the Open Files pane there but I prefer to just have my code 
showing and use the ctrl+tab to see the quick switch list.  This way I 
don't have to remove my fingers from the keyboard (where all code 
ultimately starts) to futz with a mouse.   While it isn't much area on a 
big monitor, on a laptop the tabs are proportionally taking a lot of 
space.  Just my thoughts.

r

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Rodney J. Dyer, PhD
Department of Biology
Virginia Commonwealth University
http://dyerlab.bio.vcu.edu