Usability suggestions with split window editor

Hi Folks,


  I use KDevelop 3.3.91 on a two monitors (NVidia
twin-view), and
often split the editor view vertically in half.  One half
holds a
header file, the other the implementation file.  There are a
couple of
problems that I run into:

       1) There is no easy way to move a file from one split
to
another.  The easiest way is to close the file, then click
on the
other editor and re-open the file.  The ability to drag a
tab from one
editor to another and/or have a right menu button option to
move a
file to another tab would be very helpful.

       2) When editing, my eyes focus from one split to
another, and I
begin typing, often on the incorrect split.  Eye tracking is
out of
the question; but if the mouse behavior was optionally
configurable as
focus-follows-mouse rather than click-to-focus.  This change
would
greatly reduce my editing errors - I don't have to think to
move the
mouse, but I do have to think to move and click!

       3) It would be very helpful if the editor window
could be torn
off, or even better, if a single split could be torn off as
a separate
window.

  Thanks,

       -Brett


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On Tuesday 27 June 2006 00:22, Breton M. Saunders wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
>
>   I use KDevelop 3.3.91 on a two monitors (NVidia
twin-view), and
> often split the editor view vertically in half.  One
half holds a
> header file, the other the implementation file.  There
are a couple of
> problems that I run into:
>
>        1) There is no easy way to move a file from one
split to
> another.  The easiest way is to close the file, then
click on the
> other editor and re-open the file.  The ability to drag
a tab from one
> editor to another and/or have a right menu button
option to move a
> file to another tab would be very helpful.

Which MDI mode are you using? Perhaps file a wish (although
I don't know 
whether there will be anyone that wants implement it)

>        2) When editing, my eyes focus from one split to
another, and I
> begin typing, often on the incorrect split.  Eye
tracking is out of
> the question; but if the mouse behavior was optionally
configurable as
> focus-follows-mouse rather than click-to-focus.  This
change would
> greatly reduce my editing errors - I don't have to
think to move the
> mouse, but I do have to think to move and click!

control center -> desktop -> window behaviour ->
focus follows mouse

>        3) It would be very helpful if the editor window
could be torn
> off, or even better, if a single split could be torn
off as a separate
> window.

Hopefully kdevelop4 will accommodate multiple monitors
better.  I certainly 
will try to make it so...

Cheers,
Hamish.
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