[Qt-creator] QtCreator vs QDevelop Features?

[Sebastian Fischer]

>> 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

AP> The problem with tabs is that it does not scale well. You can see at most
AP> ten or twelve files that way, beyond that tabs are basically useless as
AP> they almost always show the "wrong" files as soon as your "working set"
AP> contains more than a few dozen files.s

AP> And having to change habits depending on the size of the current project
AP> is not really a nice prospect either...

Yea I agree with that, the scaling is a problem. What's currently
lacking in Qt Creator is just the ability to order the entries in the
open documents list and at least as an option coupling Ctrl-Tab to
that order. It's obviously not important if there are just two to five
files open (tabs would also still do fine then), but currently if you
have 20 open you kinda have to use the mouse somehow to find the file
you're looking for in a reasonable time. The open documents seems
sorted by the order the files were openend in (which makes no sense to
me) and the Ctrl-Tab list changes to have recently used items close to
the top (which can be useful, but to me it rarely is). An option to
use a (manualy ordered) open documents list (or just the already
displayed one if there is one open) would be great. Far better than
tabs (since it scales well) at least for sure!

thx
Sebastian