[Qt-creator] Usability Suggestions

[Daniel Teske]

> Projects-View:
> -  Since I switched from the alpha to the mentioned snapshot (which i
>    know isn't the most recent) a lot of .prf files show up there. I
>    can only guess from their contents what they do, but I don't know
>    why they need to be shown there. The option in the new "Filter
>    Tree" icon allows me to put them each in their own category,
>    wouldn't it make more sense to have them all appear in one common
>    category (or be able to just hide them)?
They shouldn't be shown, they are just an implementation detail of how qmake 
works, and not part of your project.


> Code Completion:
> -  When using the code completion to complete a class name the list
>    starts with the capital CLASSNAME_H constand from the header, the
>    class itself is always second. This is quite obviously a bit
>    impractical ;)
Yes, we noticed that already, we added macro completion, which we want to 
keep. But obviously we need to fix that usability problem. We are considering 
a few options.

> -  When using code completion with a class an opening parenthesis is
>    automatically added, quite often I need to use the :: operator
>    though (for example when implementing functions in .cpp files).
Yes, we are aware of that problem.

> -  If the integrated help is focused ESC doesn't close it.
That's by design, the first esc does only give focus back to the editor. The 
output panes at the bottom, that is search results, and problems list act the 
same. The idea behind that is that you might want to look up something with 
F1, and start implementing while still having the help open for reference.

About the searching in the help, yes we want that to always search whatever 
has focus.

>
> Integrated Search:
> -  After pressing Ctrl-F the search bar pops up nicely placing the
>    focus in it's 'Find:'-box. It would be nice if hitting ESC while
>    the focus is somewhere on/in that bar would hide it again.
While the Find bar is open, the search items are still highlighted. So you can 
easily see all strings that match your search string. (And as above most of 
the other views behave like that.)

daniel