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From:       "Peter Penz" <peter.penz19 () gmail ! com>
Date:       2011-10-03 11:11:16
Message-ID: 20111003111116.30155.11459 () vidsolbach ! de
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> On Oct. 3, 2011, 7:28 a.m., Peter Penz wrote:
> > I always recommend to get in contact with the maintainers of an application \
> > _before_ investigating so much work into a new feature. In this case I'm very \
> >                 sorry to say that this cannot get pushed because of the following \
> >                 reasons:
> > - I'm unable to maintain this code as I don't do any Dolphin development on \
> >                 Windows (and cannot do it because of having limited time)
> > - I'd like to keep platform dependent code in Dolphin as minimal as possible
> > - For the 4.9 release of the KDE applications (= Dolphin 2.1) a long overdue \
> > cleanup of DolphinMainWindow will be done (separated code for tabs etc) and I \
> > won't be able to refactor this platform specific code :-(
> 
> Patrick Spendrin wrote:
> I think that we would also maintain this code part as we already do for other parts \
> in KDE, so you normally shouldn't need to work on that. It would be nice if you \
> could let us participate in the refactoring process for 4.9 so that we can adapt \
> this patch early & according to your wishes.

Sure, I'll drop you a note as soon as I'm cleaning up the mainwindow-code for 4.9. It \
sounds fine that you would be willing to maintain this code - I'm just generally \
wondering: Do you plan to add such window-specific code to each KDE application \
providing tabs? I'm still not really happy with having that much platform specific \
code inside the application... Well, probably I'll change my opinion but I would be \
interested how other application developers see this :-)


- Peter


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On Oct. 3, 2011, 1:25 a.m., Andrius da Costa Ribas wrote:
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> (Updated Oct. 3, 2011, 1:25 a.m.)
> 
> 
> Review request for KDE Base Apps, KDE Accessibility, kdewin, Patrick Spendrin, and \
> Peter Penz. 
> 
> Description
> -------
> 
> Add Windows 7 tab thumbnails feature to dolphin.
> Mostly based on the example from \
> <http://nicug.blogspot.com/2011/03/windows-7-taskbar-extensions-in-qt-tab.html>. 
> An icon representation is used instead of actual thumbnails ( please agree that \
> those microscopic previews are not useful at all ;] ). Changing an icon when url \
> changes is also easier than checking all the time whether something inside the \
> window has been changed. Using icons is a lot more KDE-ish and therefore more \
> beautiful and user-friendly than the default Windows behavior ;). 
> "win7utils.h" and "win7utils.cpp" are from \
> <https://github.com/xfreebird/blogstuff/tree/master/qt/thumbnailtabs_example1> with \
> few adaptations. 
> 
> Diffs
> -----
> 
> dolphin/src/CMakeLists.txt 93225c5 
> dolphin/src/dolphinapplication.h 69d07c3 
> dolphin/src/dolphinapplication.cpp 0dc9c96 
> dolphin/src/dolphinmainwindow.h 9fb83bf 
> dolphin/src/dolphinmainwindow.cpp 6ca6e59 
> dolphin/src/platform/win7utils.h PRE-CREATION 
> dolphin/src/platform/win7utils.cpp PRE-CREATION 
> 
> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/102758/diff/diff
> 
> 
> Testing
> -------
> 
> Tested using MSVC 2010 32 bit, in a Windows 7 64 bit machine.
> 
> May need testing:
> - Compiling under mingw-w32 and mingw-w64
> - Using Windows Vista or below to ensure there are no side-efects on a box without \
>                 this feature.
> - Using Windows 8 (I don't know much about its bugs^H^H^H^Hfeatures ;] )
> 
> Known problems:
> - There is no way to know if KTabBar got a tab reordered, so the "thumbnails" won't \
>                 be reordered, but their reference is still correct
> - Undefined behavior when dolphin gets unresponsive [e.g.: because of a defective \
> kioslave], most of the code assume dolphin is okay [e.g.: QPixmap::grabWidget won't \
> work in a frozen window].  
> 
> Screenshots
> -----------
> 
> Tabs!
> http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/102758/s/281/
> More Tabs!
> http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/102758/s/282/
> Too many tabs!
> http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/102758/s/283/
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Andrius da Costa Ribas
> 
> 


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<blockquote style="margin-left: 1em; border-left: 2px solid #d0d0d0; padding-left: \
10px;">  <p style="margin-top: 0;">On October 3rd, 2011, 7:28 a.m., <b>Peter Penz</b> \
wrote:</p>  <blockquote style="margin-left: 1em; border-left: 2px solid #d0d0d0; \
padding-left: 10px;">  <pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; \
white-space: -pre-wrap; white-space: -o-pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">I always \
recommend to get in contact with the maintainers of an application _before_ \
investigating so much work into a new feature. In this case I&#39;m very sorry to say \
                that this cannot get pushed because of the following reasons:
- I&#39;m unable to maintain this code as I don&#39;t do any Dolphin development on \
                Windows (and cannot do it because of having limited time)
- I&#39;d like to keep platform dependent code in Dolphin as minimal as possible
- For the 4.9 release of the KDE applications (= Dolphin 2.1) a long overdue cleanup \
of DolphinMainWindow will be done (separated code for tabs etc) and I won&#39;t be \
able to refactor this platform specific code :-(</pre>  </blockquote>




 <p>On October 3rd, 2011, 10:39 a.m., <b>Patrick Spendrin</b> wrote:</p>
 <blockquote style="margin-left: 1em; border-left: 2px solid #d0d0d0; padding-left: \
10px;">  <pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; white-space: \
-pre-wrap; white-space: -o-pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">I think that we would \
also maintain this code part as we already do for other parts in KDE, so you normally \
shouldn&#39;t need to work on that. It would be nice if you could let us participate \
in the refactoring process for 4.9 so that we can adapt this patch early &amp; \
according to your wishes.</pre>  </blockquote>








</blockquote>

<pre style="white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: -moz-pre-wrap; white-space: \
-pre-wrap; white-space: -o-pre-wrap; word-wrap: break-word;">Sure, I&#39;ll drop you \
a note as soon as I&#39;m cleaning up the mainwindow-code for 4.9. It sounds fine \
that you would be willing to maintain this code - I&#39;m just generally wondering: \
Do you plan to add such window-specific code to each KDE application providing tabs? \
I&#39;m still not really happy with having that much platform specific code inside \
the application... Well, probably I&#39;ll change my opinion but I would be \
interested how other application developers see this :-)</pre> <br />








<p>- Peter</p>


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<div>Review request for KDE Base Apps, KDE Accessibility, kdewin, Patrick Spendrin, \
and Peter Penz.</div> <div>By Andrius da Costa Ribas.</div>


<p style="color: grey;"><i>Updated Oct. 3, 2011, 1:25 a.m.</i></p>






<h1 style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 1.5em;">Description </h1>
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   <pre style="margin: 0; padding: 0; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: \
-moz-pre-wrap; white-space: -pre-wrap; white-space: -o-pre-wrap; word-wrap: \
break-word;">Add Windows 7 tab thumbnails feature to dolphin. Mostly based on the \
example from &lt;http://nicug.blogspot.com/2011/03/windows-7-taskbar-extensions-in-qt-tab.html&gt;.


An icon representation is used instead of actual thumbnails ( please agree that those \
microscopic previews are not useful at all ;] ). Changing an icon when url changes is \
also easier than checking all the time whether something inside the window has been \
changed. Using icons is a lot more KDE-ish and therefore more beautiful and \
user-friendly than the default Windows behavior ;).

&quot;win7utils.h&quot; and &quot;win7utils.cpp&quot; are from \
&lt;https://github.com/xfreebird/blogstuff/tree/master/qt/thumbnailtabs_example1&gt; \
with few adaptations.</pre>  </td>
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<h1 style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 1.5em;">Testing </h1>
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-moz-pre-wrap; white-space: -pre-wrap; white-space: -o-pre-wrap; word-wrap: \
break-word;">Tested using MSVC 2010 32 bit, in a Windows 7 64 bit machine.

May need testing:
- Compiling under mingw-w32 and mingw-w64
- Using Windows Vista or below to ensure there are no side-efects on a box without \
                this feature.
- Using Windows 8 (I don&#39;t know much about its bugs^H^H^H^Hfeatures ;] )

Known problems:
- There is no way to know if KTabBar got a tab reordered, so the \
                &quot;thumbnails&quot; won&#39;t be reordered, but their reference is \
                still correct
- Undefined behavior when dolphin gets unresponsive [e.g.: because of a defective \
kioslave], most of the code assume dolphin is okay [e.g.: QPixmap::grabWidget \
won&#39;t work in a frozen window].  </pre>
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<h1 style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 1.5em;">Diffs</b> </h1>
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 <li>dolphin/src/CMakeLists.txt <span style="color: grey">(93225c5)</span></li>

 <li>dolphin/src/dolphinapplication.h <span style="color: grey">(69d07c3)</span></li>

 <li>dolphin/src/dolphinapplication.cpp <span style="color: \
grey">(0dc9c96)</span></li>

 <li>dolphin/src/dolphinmainwindow.h <span style="color: grey">(9fb83bf)</span></li>

 <li>dolphin/src/dolphinmainwindow.cpp <span style="color: \
grey">(6ca6e59)</span></li>

 <li>dolphin/src/platform/win7utils.h <span style="color: \
grey">(PRE-CREATION)</span></li>

 <li>dolphin/src/platform/win7utils.cpp <span style="color: \
grey">(PRE-CREATION)</span></li>

</ul>

<p><a href="http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/102758/diff/" style="margin-left: \
3em;">View Diff</a></p>



<h1 style="color: #575012; font-size: 10pt; margin-top: 1.5em;">Screenshots </h1>

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 <a href="http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/102758/s/281/"><img \
src="http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/images/2011/10/03/k4w7_1_400x100.png" \
style="border: 1px black solid;" alt="Tabs!" /></a>

 <a href="http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/102758/s/282/"><img \
src="http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/images/2011/10/03/k4w7_3_400x100.png" \
style="border: 1px black solid;" alt="More Tabs!" /></a>

 <a href="http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/102758/s/283/"><img \
src="http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/images/2011/10/03/k4w7_2_400x100.png" \
style="border: 1px black solid;" alt="Too many tabs!" /></a>

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