[Qt-creator] Poll: Contents / styling of editor toolbars

Jaroslaw Kobus Jaroslaw.Kobus at qt.io
Tue Apr 4 20:17:57 CEST 2023


> > 1. I never use what occupies the most of the toolbar, i.e. the
> > combobox in the middle, containing the tree of namespaces / classes /
> > methods.
> 
> I never use them either, actually. The only thing that I occasionally
> looks at it the 'column' information.
> 
> > Maybe this functionality could be merged into "class view" on
> > the left side, showing the content of the current editor (instead of
> > showing everything from the current project, like it's now - probably
> > it could be configurable).
> 
> One could think of making "any" action from Environment->Keyboard
> "pinnable" to the toolbar. But would /you/ actually /use/ it,
> instead of triggering it by the keyboard shortcut?

The thing is that I don't have a good memory when it comes to shortcuts, especially
when I don't trigger them a couple of times a day. For most often actions I remember just
couple of shortcuts.

The issue with shortcuts is sometimes that I don't know how to trigger them, even when I see it.
E.g. I would love to use a shortcut for "Tools | Git | Current File | Diff", for which the shortcut is:
"Alt+G, Alt+D". This means you need to press (exactly in this order), without releasing any key
in meantime: Alt key, G key, D key. Then you may release all 3 keys. Very cumbersome. If you
do it like: Alt key, D key (and you are about to press the 3rd G key), a "Debug" menu is being
open instead (since the Alt D accelerator).


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