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Although it's easy to work around and is low priority, I figured I'd report it anyway.

If you click "Auto" in the "Auto / Manual" button bar before an app has actually been loaded the "Auto" button is selected, suggesting that auto mode is enabled - however once an app is loaded it's clear that it is not.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Run AppAid
2. Click "Auto" in the "Auto / Manual" button bar
3. Load an app
4. Make a change and save
5. Observe that app is not compiled and reloaded

Workaround is pretty simple, just click "Manual" and then "Auto" again.

Questions, comments, or desires for the testing-oriented 0.2.0 release should be posted here.

Stefan mentioned (in #1) that a close button would be helpful, i agree.

Toggling any of the tabs (including Ace or AppAid itself) to full-window mode and back pushes the toolbar halfway off screen, as illustrated in this screenshot.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Open AppAid
2. Load an app
3. Toggle full window mode (CMD/CTRL+Enter)
4. Toggle normal window mode (CMD/CTRL+Enter)
5. Observe toolbar

Currently, if your compiling app hangs during loading or compiling, AppAid just sort of quits displaying information.

I'm not entirely sure what can be done to deal with that, but i think a continuous notification would be best. Something like either one of these:

1. The progress popups don't popup, but instead attach to the corner of the window, and each stage replaces the previous. This would inform the user what step they are at, and that the process has not been completed.
2. A simple loading spinner somewhere.

The first option is far more informative.

The modal & error reporting system is messy currently, resolve this.

A syntax error in the compiling app will cause an "exit status 4". Handle this with grace.

Multiple watch tasks can be launched if you launch the task and close the app, then reopen and relaunch the task.

There are multiple ways of dealing with this, but the best would likely be done by improving the task shutdown checking. Currently it just checks if AppAid is open, i would like one of the following:

• Logging of the PID in the app, and shutdown of AppAid causes a kill PID server command.
• The shutdown of AppAid to trigger turning watch off, and the next time the watcher responds it simply shuts down because it is no longer "on".
• Record the app ID, and when a app check i done compare the values and bail if they do not match.

Is there any chance you might remove the "AppAid: Make your KDApps Faster and Easier!" title from the app? Two reasons:

1. It interferes with the design of the app under development. You could say that the buttons on the right hand side of the toolbar are also a distraction, but I think that they are acceptable - whereas I think the banner text is actually quite detrimental when an app is already text heavy. For example, see this screenshot.
2. It actually might be confusing for inexperienced users anyway as the phrasing could easily be misinterpreted as "Make your apps perform faster" rather than "Make the process of developing apps more efficient".