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

[KC Jones]

I like my "auto-restore" suggestion better.  And I suggest it would
accomplish the same thing.

My suggestion is that the current behaviour, where the build panel is
exposed automatically when a build is started, be retained.  But when
the build completes successfully, Creator should restore the panel
layout in effect before the build started.

In this way, if you devote as much of the screen as possible to edit
views, and if your build is clean, your screen layout will be
restored.  The layout will be altered for the time it takes to build,
but I would argue that showing the progress of a build is useful for
us coders.  If you are performing a lengthy build, you can always
manually hide the "compile output" panel.  If the build fails, the
"build issues" panel will remain on screen -- which is clearly
desirable.

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 5:18 AM, Ilyes Gouta <ilyes.gouta at gmail.com> 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?
>
> Regards,
> Ilyes Gouta.
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