[Lazarus] More menu changes

Juha Manninen juha.manninen62 at gmail.com
Thu Mar 10 00:14:44 CET 2011


Michael Van Canneyt kirjoitti keskiviikko 09 maaliskuu 2011 23:37:49:
> Please leave the options dialog as it is. It works well.
> 
> One place for all settings is GOOD !
> 
> Often you don't know where exactly a setting is, but now you can find it
> easily. If you split the dialog it into many, it means closing the dialog,
> going to a new menu point, opening a dialog. That is simply wasting time.
> And for what ? Because you must scroll in a tree ? The alternative is
> worse and will be lots slower.

Sounds reasonable.
Now some exact setting is not very easy to find but the future filter/search 
feature will help a lot.

Still, some settings are split into small dialogs, namely "Code templates" and 
"Codetools defines editor" + settings registered by packages.
They don't match with the design goal of centralized settings.
Maybe the plan is to unite them, I don't know.

If the menu had only 2 items (Options and Scan FPC dir), it should be deleted 
and the items moved elsewhere.
Now it has more items and potentially still more coming from packages.
I guess it is needed.


> Do not change things for the sake of changing.
> These thing must have a reason, they must improve the IDE.

I try to be careful with that.
I feel the changes so far made the menus more logical and intuitive.

Juha




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