Bug 360295

Summary:	Open project dialog should not use heading for long text
Product:	[Applications] kdevelop	Reporter:	Kai Uwe Broulik <kde>
Component:	general	Assignee:	kdevelop-bugs-null
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	minor	CC:	ajoshi6, mail
Priority:	NOR	Keywords:	junior-jobs
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:	5.0.0
Sentry Crash Report:

Description Kai Uwe Broulik 2016-03-09 11:56:14 UTC

The open project dialog says something like "Choose project, cmake, blabla to open" which can get quite long in German. The heading should be used for, say "Open Project" and then perhaps have a sub-heading in regular font explaining what it does. Alternatively it could at least wrap as it causes the dialog to fill the entire width of the screen on a laptop

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Press Ctrl+O on the start page of KDevelop
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Actual Results:  
Cringe

Expected Results:  
A regularly sized dialog with a help text ontop

Comment 1 Sven Brauch 2016-03-09 14:16:18 UTC

Maybe if we touch this anyways we should try to get rid of the embedded file dialog? That is not going to work well on other platforms (windows).
One option would be two (or more) QCommandLinkButtons, "open a directory as a project", "import project from build system file". That'd also make it clearer what actually happens. I know a lot of users who in the beginning cannot figure out that you can simply select a directory and get that loaded as a project. Thoughts?

Comment 2 Kevin Funk 2016-03-09 14:26:48 UTC

+1 for getting rid off the embedded file dialog altogether. It doesn't work well on Windows, as you say.

It's actually on my TODO, see: https://phabricator.kde.org/T1129

Comment 3 Akshay 2016-03-09 14:44:38 UTC

Guys I can try to work on this bug

Comment 4 Sven Brauch 2016-03-09 15:40:13 UTC

@kfunk I know, that's why I looked into it and noticed it's probably not going to happen as long as it is embedded in that widget :]

@akshay, sure, go for it; maybe we should first come to a conclusion how we want it to look like, though?

Comment 5 Akshay 2016-04-04 07:24:44 UTC

How do I access the font size to change and solve this bug..?

Comment 6 Kevin Funk 2016-08-26 20:16:20 UTC

This is fixed now with Sven's refactoring of the Open Project Dialog.