How about we remove this thing? It has usability issues, and is pretty much completely covered by the FileList and QuickOpen-File features.

Maybe it's because I  migrated from emacs, but this is pretty much the *only* way I switch between buffers.  Many of my projects have subfolders up to 3 levels deep, in which much of my work is done, so QuickOpen-File involves more keystrokes, esp. when I'm rapidly cycling between files.  And when I have 40-50 files open (which is typical), many with similar prefixes, the menu is very hard to deal with, esp. by keystrokes.

Please don't remove this feature! :)

SVN commit 618662 by dagerbo:

# Improve "switch to.." dialog
# Make it possible to differentiate between several files with the same name

BUG: 86361

 M  +7 -6      Makefile.am  
 M  +7 -29     partcontroller.cpp  
 A             switchtodialog.cpp   [License: GPL (v2+)]
 A             switchtodialog.h   [License: GPL (v2+)]
 A             switchtodialogbase.ui  


--- branches/kdevelop/3.4/src/Makefile.am #618661:618662
@@ -13,11 +13,11 @@
 	$(top_builddir)/lib/widgets/libkdevwidgets.la $(top_builddir)/lib/interfaces/extras/libkdevextras.la \
 	$(top_builddir)/src/newui/libd.la $(LIB_KHTML) -lktexteditor
 libkdevshell_la_SOURCES = api.cpp core.cpp documentationpart.cpp \
-	editorproxy.cpp generalinfowidget.cpp languageselectwidget.cpp mainwindowshare.cpp \
-	partcontroller.cpp plugincontroller.cpp projectmanager.cpp \
-	projectsession.cpp splashscreen.cpp statusbar.cpp toplevel.cpp generalinfowidgetbase.ui \
-	mimewarningdialog.ui shellextension.cpp simplemainwindow.cpp multibuffer.cpp \
-	pluginselectdialogbase.ui pluginselectdialog.cpp pluginselectdialog.h
+	editorproxy.cpp generalinfowidget.cpp generalinfowidgetbase.ui languageselectwidget.cpp \
+	mainwindowshare.cpp mimewarningdialog.ui multibuffer.cpp partcontroller.cpp \
+	plugincontroller.cpp pluginselectdialog.cpp pluginselectdialog.h pluginselectdialogbase.ui \
+	projectmanager.cpp projectsession.cpp shellextension.cpp simplemainwindow.cpp \
+	splashscreen.cpp statusbar.cpp switchtodialog.cpp switchtodialogbase.ui toplevel.cpp
 
 bin_PROGRAMS = kdevelop kdevassistant
 
@@ -46,7 +46,7 @@
 	generalinfowidget.h languageselectwidget.h mainwindowshare.h \
 	partcontroller.h plugincontroller.h projectmanager.h projectsession.h shellextension.h \
 	splashscreen.h statusbar.h toplevel.h generalinfowidgetbase.h mimewarningdialog.h \
-	settingswidget.h simplemainwindow.h multibuffer.h
+	settingswidget.h simplemainwindow.h multibuffer.h switchtodialog.h
 
 DOXYGEN_REFERENCES = dcop interfaces kdecore kdefx kdeui khtml kmdi kio kjs kparts kutils kdevutil kdevinterfaces kdevextensions
 DOXYGEN_PROJECTNAME = KDevelop Generic Shell
@@ -55,3 +55,4 @@
 profilesdatadir = $(kde_datadir)/kdevelop/profiles
 profilesdata_DATA = projectprofiles
 AM_CXXFLAGS = -w
+
--- branches/kdevelop/3.4/src/partcontroller.cpp #618661:618662
@@ -65,6 +65,8 @@
 #include "multibuffer.h"
 #include "partcontroller.h"
 
+#include "switchtodialog.h"
+
 class QDomDocument;
 
 PartController *PartController::s_instance = 0;
@@ -316,7 +318,7 @@
 			}
 		}
 
-		if ( !done && ( !url.isValid() || !KIO::NetAccess::exists(url, false, 0) ))
+ 		if ( !done && ( !url.isValid() || !KIO::NetAccess::exists(url, false, 0) ))
 		{
 			// Not found - prompt the user to find it?
 			kdDebug(9000) << "cannot find URL: " << url.url() << endl;
@@ -1311,35 +1313,11 @@
 
 void PartController::slotSwitchTo()
 {
-    QMap<QString,KParts::ReadOnlyPart*> parts_map;
-    QStringList part_list;
-    QPtrList<KParts::Part> pl = *parts();
-    KParts::Part *part;
-    for(part=pl.first();part;part=pl.next()) {
-        kdDebug(9000) << "Part..." << endl;
-	if (part->inherits("KParts::ReadOnlyPart")) {
-	    KParts::ReadOnlyPart *ro_part = static_cast<KParts::ReadOnlyPart*>(part);
-            QString name = ro_part->url().fileName();
-	    part_list.append(name);
-            parts_map[name] = ro_part;
-            kdDebug(9000) << "Found part for URL " << ro_part->url().prettyURL() << endl;
+	SwitchToDialog dlg( openURLs() );
+	if ( dlg.exec() == QDialog::Accepted )
+	{
+		editDocument( dlg.selectedUrl() );
 	}
-    }
-
-    KDialogBase dialog(KDialogBase::Plain, i18n("Switch To"), KDialogBase::Ok|KDialogBase::Cancel,
-		       KDialogBase::Ok, 0, "Switch to", true);
-    QGridLayout *grid = new QGridLayout( dialog.plainPage(), 2, 1, 10, 10);
-    KLineEdit *editbox = new KLineEdit(dialog.plainPage());
-    grid->addWidget(new QLabel( i18n("Switch to buffer:"), dialog.plainPage() ), 0, 0);
-    grid->addWidget(editbox, 1, 0);
-    editbox->completionObject()->setItems( part_list );
-    editbox->setFocus();
-    int result = dialog.exec();
-    if (result==KDialogBase::KDialogBase::Accepted) {
-        if (parts_map.contains(editbox->text())) {
-            activatePart(parts_map[editbox->text()]);
-        }
-    }
 }
 
 void PartController::showPart( KParts::Part* part, const QString& name, const QString& shortDescription )