ideal UI mode

Hi,

since Alex asked for it, here's my opinion:

ideal mode rocks !
If current Qt4.2 dock windows are not powerful enough, I'd
suggest to ask on 
kde-core-devel whether they can be enhanced for 4.2 final so
that they do 
everything needed for ideal mode. 
The Trolls explicitely encouraged us to do so, Simon
Hausmann and Benjamin 
Meyer are currently the official Trolltech-KDE contact
point.

Btw. I really like(d) the original ideal mode where the
sidebars can overlap 
the main widget and where they can close immedialetly after
selecting 
something.

Bye
Alex
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On Monday 04 September 2006 13:14, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> Hi,
>
> since Alex asked for it, here's my opinion:
>
> ideal mode rocks !
> If current Qt4.2 dock windows are not powerful enough,
I'd suggest to ask
> on kde-core-devel whether they can be enhanced for 4.2
final so that they
> do everything needed for ideal mode.
> The Trolls explicitely encouraged us to do so, Simon
Hausmann and Benjamin
> Meyer are currently the official Trolltech-KDE contact
point.
>
> Btw. I really like(d) the original ideal mode where the
sidebars can
> overlap the main widget and where they can close
immedialetly after
> selecting something.
>
> Bye
> Alex

Qt is in feature freeze so we won't get the features we
want in QMainWindow 
before Qt 4.3
-- 
Matt

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On Monday 04 September 2006 13:14, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> Hi,
>
> since Alex asked for it, here's my opinion:
>
> ideal mode rocks !
> If current Qt4.2 dock windows are not powerful enough,
I'd suggest to ask
> on kde-core-devel whether they can be enhanced for 4.2
final so that they
> do everything needed for ideal mode.
> The Trolls explicitely encouraged us to do so, Simon
Hausmann and Benjamin
> Meyer are currently the official Trolltech-KDE contact
point.
>
> Btw. I really like(d) the original ideal mode where the
sidebars can
> overlap the main widget and where they can close
immedialetly after
> selecting something.
>
> Bye
> Alex

And off the top of my head, here's what I believe we would
need in order to 
implement the Ideal UI mode used in previous versions of
KDevelop using only 
Qt. Alexander Dymo may know more. 

- Ability to customize how the tab widget is displayed for
the dock widget 
( may already be possible with the CSS stylesheets )
- Abililty to hide the dockwidgets when there is a tabbar
there
- Ability to always display the tabbar even though there is
only one 
dockwidget
- Ability to have icons on the dockwidget tabs
- Ability to disable display of text on the dockwidget tabs

If we get none of these, then we would at least need access
to the internal 
QMainWindow layout in order us to be able to do the widget
management 
properly (so i've been told)
-- 
Matt

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> Btw. I really like(d) the original ideal mode where the
sidebars can
> overlap the main widget and where they can close
immedialetly after
> selecting something.

+1

Jens
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