[Qt-creator] Show sidebar to the right in edit mode (patch)

[Tsybankov Ivan]

Well, you know I really thought that ui design of qt creator was deliberately 
chosen to be different from eclipse.
For now qt creator's UI is highly static and looks actually clean but if we 
want to engage that floatable/dockable concept every separate element should be 
freely moveable. Not only sidebar but also help panel and various bottom 
panels like compiler output so that for example I can have current sidebar on 
the left and search sidebar on the right. Of course there sould be a way to 
have several sidebars on one side (or bottom) selectable via some buttons as 
it is now with bottom panels. That leads to UI very similar to eclipse and 
very different from current UI. 
If that's the main idea of current UI development in qt creator then it's fine 
by me (I'm a heavy eclipse user) and I can actually try to help.

Another idea is to allow the sidebar(s) to be on the left or right side 
(something similar is implemented in kdevelop4) but that is basically what I 
did except that there is only one sidebar so the solution is quite simple if 
you don't want to apply changes instantly

Ivan

On Tuesday, June 19, 2012 09:05:50 PM you wrote:
> Wouldn't it be a better fix to make the sidebar a floatable, dockable
> window in general? There has been discussion about this sort of change
> previously, and I think there is consensus that float/dock would be a good
> idea.
> 
> I guess I think that patching something in this way when we intend to
> change the behavior more generally doesn't seem like a good investment.
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 6:56 AM, Ivan Tsybankov <tvano at mail.ru> wrote:
> > Hello,
> > I've recently tried to use qt creator in dual-monitor (5:4) configuration
> > and
> > found that default placement of sidebar is inconvenient since it either
> > partly
> > moves the code to another screen or just leaves too little space for the
> > code
> > on the first screen so i added an ability to show that sidebar to the
> > right.
> > Also i added a configuration parameter to control sidebar placement in
> > general
> > settings (Enviromnent/General). It is set to usual placement (left) by
> > default.
> > 
> > Patch is against today's git clone.
> > 
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