Version: 4.2.0 (using KDE 4.6.0) OS: Linux The various tool buttons one can align around the perimeter of the main window make good sense and it is intuitive that if I click on one, it opens or closes the respective tool's sub-window. What I find myself completely confused by was that if I click on the top right button in a subwindow (the one labeled "Remove the tool") it doesn't just close the subwindow as one would expect, but in fact removes the tool from the list of tools on the perimeter as well. It took me quite a while of searching to get it back, but the main point is that while this behavior is consistent with the text of the tooltip, it is not consistent with the usual behavior of windows: when you click on the "x", it closes the window but doesn't remove the button to get it back. You'd be surprised as well if you closed kdevelop by clicking on the top right button of the main window and this also removed the kdevelop start button on the KDE screen :-) In other words, please make this button do the equivalent thing to clicking on the tool's name on the perimeter of the main window. Thanks Wolfgang Reproducible: Always
I agree that removing a tab is not common enough so that we have to have the button always visible. I'm not sure we want to hide if the X is clicked, though. Changing such a functionality in a program is weird and the users who know how it works will feel weird. If it's really troublesome I'd say we can remove the button and problem gone.
I would say leave the button in place but change the semantics: instead of removing the tool, make it equivalent to what happens when you click on the tab on the perimeter of the main window ("hide" the tool). As for changing the behavior: True, change is awkward, but in general I tend to think that whenever a program has some awkward behavior that is commonly agreed makes little sense, then I'm all in favor of changing it: the few users who actively use it will adapt (and I would claim that few people actively use it, because completely removing a tool is a pretty uncommon operation) while the large majority as well as all those who may learn the tool in the future will benefit from the change. W.
I still think there has to be a way to remove the view. For example, i dont want the debug view in the code area and the run view in the debug area. This state is not saved as it seems and so i have to do this each time i start kdevelop.
There is of course a way to do what you want: - to close the tool view, simply click on the symbol on the perimeter - to remove the tool view symbol from the perimeter, right click on it and select "Remove toolview" W.
Ah yes. That should be enough.
(In reply to comment #4) Agree to this solution, patch is very velcome
I think this is how it works now, if that's not the case, please reopen.