On Sat, 6 Feb 2010 16:40:57 +0100 Enrico Tröger enrico.troeger@uvena.de wrote:
IMO way too much information. I already said that about the current build settings in the SVN version and this one is even worse, IMHO. Yes, for users who want the ultimate control of every single build option that could be useful but, as also said multiple times before, the idea of Geany's build system was to be easy to use and to just get the job done. From my experience, this was much appreciated by users (getting lots of mail stating this). Well, this feature we will loose with the current rework in the SVN version and with the mockup in the new branch, it won't get better, IMHO.
Sorry when this sounds a bit hard and I do understand your motivation to make it all more flexible. But it's maybe just not want some/most/all users want.
I agree, I don't like this design, sorry Lex ;-)
I think making all functionality available is overkill. We've got to come up with a design that makes sense for each set of commands.
For example, you can only have one build command stopable, unless you make new build tabs in the message window. I think this is too complex.
Any increase in functionality needs to have a rationale. Do we need each command to be handled individually, or should sets of commands have the same behaviour? I prefer the latter.
Regards, Nick