[Qt-creator] ideas

[Will Stokes]

Just tried the latest snapshot after reading the blog posting. Qt
Creator is looking awesome. If a few basic issues I'm having with the
editor UI could be addressed I would switch from XCode in a heartbeat.
These are listed in order from most to least significant, although I'd
love to see them all addressed. Some, like more default themes, would
be pretty easy to implement.

-Will

-Please please please add an option to the preferences so that the
user can click a single time in the file listing to show the selected
file in the editor. Double clicking constantly is almost a
show-stopped for me. I'd also suggest making single clicking to show a
file in the editor the default behavior. You might just do that
instead of adding the preference.

-I like the checkable item for turning off "generated files" from the
file listing on the left. I'd like a similar checkable option for
showing/hiding project related files (.pro and .pri files) since 99%
of the time I'm working with the files I have, not editing the
project. By minimizing the clutter in the file listing it'll be easier
to scroll around on smaller (aka laptop) screens.

-I've setup a project where my main .pro file includes a slew of pri
files, one in each subdirectory. If subdirectories are within
subdirectories I have a pri file in each directory and each .pri files
indluces the next. QtCreator supports this, but annoyingly names the
directories "files" since all my .pri files are called " files.pri.
This is stupid. The file listing should use the name of the directory
the .pri file is within. Or perhaps that should be an option, since I
suppose it would be possible ot have multiple pri files within a
single directory. Alternatively: when using directory mode, make it
work like project mode and having expandable nodes, not just one
directory at a top with .. and .svn entries at the top.

-Instead of having "sources" and "headers" sections repeated over and
over in the file listing, a single combo box at the top and support
for using F4 to switch between the header and source file listings
would be super and would also reduce a lot of clutter.

-The new color schemes are great. Small suggestion: ship with preset
color schemes for all the popular IDE's users are coming from and
might be used to. XCode and VS come to mind. This will ease adoption.

-I would like to be able to reduce the line # font size and use a
different background color (mid gray) and a vertical line at the right
(slighter darker gray) to help separate the line numbers from the text
editor content. Aka, I'd like to be able to turn the line #'s into a
gutter.