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List:       amarok-devel
Subject:    Re: MainWindow layouting
From:       Valorie Zimmerman <valorie.zimmerman () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-09-19 9:06:52
Message-ID: AANLkTi=Rfmcwd0Wm=9Vg0RT30r+5gGrAahR3hFZxtjY_ () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Sun, Sep 19, 2010 at 12:30 AM, Mark Kretschmann <kretschmann@kde.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 24, 2010 at 9:52 PM, Thomas Lübking <thomas.luebking@web.de> wrote:
>> Am Wednesday 24 March 2010 schrieb Mark Kretschmann:
>>> In fact it's a hack that took us a long time to get right. Qt's dock
>>> widget system isn't exactly great, in many respects.
>> I'm pretty sure it causes bug #231428, i'm gonna try sth. different =)
>>
>>> Making the layout crash persistent by storing it immediately is sort
>>> of an incidental (but positive) side effect of this hack.
>> The "on disk" storage should not be required then anymore and doesn't make
>> things exactly "faster" - we can oc still keep a "write only" (maybe with
>> longer timeout)
>
> Hello Thomas,
>
> a while ago we had talked about our (rather hackish) system in Amarok
> for preserving MainWindow aspect ratios in the layout. If I remember
> correctly, you proposed to replace this system with a better solution.
>
> Now that some time has passed our old system is showing its age very
> badly, and the code becomes hard to understand, let alone to maintain.
>
> Do you still have a patch or ideas around for a replacement? :)
>
> --
> Mark Kretschmann

While you all are discussing this, how about allowing a "restore
default layout" in the main layout menu? I had to wipe out my configs
the other day after getting the layout completely messed up, and was
unable to fix without doing that.

Valorie
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