[Qt-creator] Feature request: Project and Build panels auto-hide options

[Danny Price]

I don't see how having good keyboard support should necessarily sacrifice
'conventional' mouse support.

This certainly explains a few things though - there are parts of Creator's
UI that are downright strange.

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 3:57 PM, Nicolas Arnaud-Cormos <nicolas at kdab.com>wrote:

> On Wednesday 20 January 2010 16:35:43 Ilyes Gouta wrote:
> > > PS: Are you aware of the Alt-0 ("Zero") keyboard shortcut?
> >
> > Yes. It still requires me to push some buttons, Alt+0, Alt+1, Alt+2,
> > etc. Sometimes I confuse one shortcut for another one, whereas using
> > the mouse, it's just about hovering over a hot region (the edge of a
> > minimized panel?) to get to the functionality: It's a lot easier and
> > practical. It's about usability.
>
> Funny, using the mouse in an IDE is for me not practical at all. Most of
> your
> time you are typing your code, and using the mouse makes you move your hand
> from the keyboard.
> I find it way more easier to have shortcuts for all important things, and I
> can
> always navigate the menu with the keyboard for the rest.
>
> And Qt Creator is the only IDE I know that lets me do everything with the
> keyboard (thank you locator).
> It takes some time to learn the keyboard (easier with a reference card),
> but
> when it's done, you'll be more productive than using the mouse.
>
> That's just my point of view.
>
> Cheers,
> Nicolas
>
> > -Ilyes
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 2:21 PM, André Pönitz <andre.poenitz at nokia.com>
> wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 20 January 2010 14:18:09 ext Ilyes Gouta wrote:
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> Is it possible to consider the addition of this new feature request
> > >> "project and build panels auto-hide" in the next iteration of
> > >> QtCreator?
> > >>
> > >> Basically it's about adding a kind of a transition to the project tree
> > >> panel and the build status panels where they slide-in to become
> > >> visible once the mouse pointer hits a hot area to bring them in.
> > >> Otherwise, those windows stay hidden. This is will enable the source
> > >> code editor window to take entire screen estate which really increases
> > >> the productivity when you're like working/editing once single file at
> > >> once. It's really important, you know, for someone who spends like his
> > >> entire computer-time editing code :) Is it possible to consider it?
> > >
> > > Consider adding it to bugreports.qt.nokia.com
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Andre'
> > >
> > > PS: Are you aware of the Alt-0 ("Zero") keyboard shortcut?
> > >
> > >
> > >
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