From kde-commits  Thu May 31 22:25:28 2001
From: Carsten Pfeiffer <carpdjih () cetus ! zrz ! tu-berlin ! de>
Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 22:25:28 +0000
To: kde-commits
Subject: Re: kdelibs/kfile
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-commits&m=99134801101498

On Freitag, 1. Juni 2001 00:14 you wrote:

hah, pop3 is there again :)

>  > I think I understand what you mean (KOffice still compiling). Actually,
>  > why does the preview always hide when changing the mimetype? I find that
>  > rather ugly. Yes, it takes away some space when it's not used, but it
>  > takes away time when it shakes up your entire view everytime you
>  > highlight a file.
>
>  I really prefer that it "shakes up my view" to appear when it's needed.
>  In 90% of the cases it's not needed (e.g. when saving in native format),
>  so we really don't want a gray area to be there all the time.

well, in the case of saving, it's arguable that the preview should be shown 
at all. You usually don't need a 'preview' for saving, right? Ok, KOffice 
uses the preview-widget for other stuff as well, but we might use another 
mechanism for that (that extension stuff).

Cheers,
Carsten Pfeiffer