QDevelop 0.25 is out
12 בדצמבר, 2007Three months since 0.24 has been released, it’ been decided that what we have now in SVN/trunk will be called 0.25. Many updates have been introduced to the code, and I personally am very pleased. This is the mandatory screen shot:
Here is a list of some the things that I have done in the last version (the changelog is much bigger, this is just the stuff I did… which are, obviously, my favorite changes between 0.24 and 0.25):
CMake support is finished. Under Windows you get this funky application with a win32 icon and no console running, a proper native application. Linux works as usual, as this is the way I build my versions. God knows what happens on Mac.
Added white space display to the editors. When you open a file, you will see small dots on spaces, and this funky icon in tabs. I must admit I “borrowed” the idea from kate4. (1)
Merged two nested QTabWidgets. In 0.24 we had 2 QTabWidgets nested in each other for the project and debug outputs, I moved the tab pages to the outer QTabWidet, and changed the decoration to trigangular. That saved us a few pixels. (yay!)
Minor GUI optimizations. Merged two toolbars, once more to save space. All menus have shortcuts.
Possible to remove the editors toobars. Each text editor has this banner, which lists the classes and methods list in this file. I always hated that, so now you have a small checkbox which removes this so you can have more real-estate - more editing area.
English corrections. The original code was written in french, and then translated to English (using Qt4 i18n classes). At some point JL translated it back to English, and and since then we are fixing the UI.
Panic “this GUI scares me, give’me a text editor” button. IDEs are fun, since they have all this funky functionality. Which always leads to the “omg, what the are all those dock windows” syndrome. To remedy this, a new feature (happily stolen from HaiQ) will hide all your dock windows and show you a plain text editor. Press “control+e” to enable it, and once more to disable it, and show all your previous dock-windows.(2)
The source can be downloaded as usual from http://qdevelop.org/.
(1) A tip for the kate developers: when introduced this feature to the SVN, some user complained that the marks are not visible on some LCDs, and someone commited a fix, and made the colors more dark. In my original commit, I used colors darker then the ones used in kate, so you might need to make them much draker.
(2) My favorite button combination in QDevelop. I wish kdevelop had such magic button as well.
