[bt-devel] New mainindex

[Martin Gruner]

Coooooooooooooooooooool.

The grouping feature rocks.

mg


Am Donnerstag, 8. November 2007 schrieb Eeli Kaikkonen:
> I just made many commits which were in random order, sorry about the
> mess.  Anyways, the whole thing should work now. The main change is the
> maindex (bookshelf view). I almost rewrote it. It's not ready though:
> the bookmarks are missing. This is the first phase in redisigning the
> bookshelf. Next phases are to make two tabs, one for the current module
> tree view and the other for the bookmarks.
>
> The bookmarks view is easy to write, we can use the old code almost
> as-is. It's now in the new "bookmarks" subdirectory. After it works and
> the code has been cleaned up and refactored/restructured it can be moved
> back to mainindex/ directory if it feels better.
>
> The new bookshelf uses the btmoduletreeview. The code is shorter now
> especially because the bookmark code is not there anymore but also
> because constructing and using the view is simpler. Instead of 5
> non-bookmark item classes there are now 3 and they are shorter and
> simpler than the old ones. There's still much room for improvements, I'm
> not totally satisfied with the code, especially the Action/popup menu
> handling.
>
> I also added a new feature which I talked about earlier: users can
> change the grouping. Open the RMB menu and you'll see. As far as I can
> see we have lost only one feature, namely the second language name in
> Glossary Languages. It can be added for example into btmoduletreeview if
> it feels necessary, but it would work well only with Category/Language
> grouping.
>
> I also added some icons. Mainindex uses different icons for categories.
> Actually it looks ugly. I think it would be a good idea to use different
> icons but they should be simple and coherent, for example folder with a
> small additional marker. The new Oxygen style folder is just bad and
> ugly IMHO, therefore I wanted to get rid of it.
>
> There is also a small icon cache in the icon loader function. I added it
> because I noticed that the SVG rendering takes a loooooong time.
> Creating a tree view without icons was lightning fast, with icons it
> took maybe hundred or thousand times as long. With the cache it's again
> instant with subsequent calls, only the first time takes longer.
>
> Somehow my icon loading changes affected to Config dialog icons - they
> are not there anymore. I have to investigate that. I also found that
> some icons are just not found even though they should be there, e.g. RMB
> menu "Unlock" item in mainindex. Maybe I have missed something obvious.
>
>   Yours,
> 	Eeli Kaikkonen (Mr.), Oulu, Finland
> 	e-mail: eekaikko at mailx.studentx.oulux.fix (with no x)
>
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