From kde-core-devel  Fri Nov 02 22:09:32 2001
From: Michael Brade <brade () informatik ! uni-muenchen ! de>
Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2001 22:09:32 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: RFC: KAction::plug() too limited - KActionWidget
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=100473923119926

Hi!

The situation: actions in KDE are only pluggable into menus, toolbars and 
popups. In KNotes I need to plug actions into a QWidget since there is no 
toolbar and using a popup for rich text options is ugly.

Solution: I wrote a KActionWidget (not finished yet) that takes actions just 
like e.g. a menu and displays them using a grid layout or a box layout 
(dynamically changable even after plugging actions for maximum flexibility). 
For bigger customization it is possible to derive from KActionWidget. 

I thought about adding it to the XML GUI framework as well so that you can 
write something like 

<actionwidget name="bla">
   <action name="an_action"/>
   ....
</actionwidget>

What do you think? May I add it to the features list?

Ciao,
  Michael

PS: sorry for posting this soo late, I didn't have enough time for KDE the 
last two months :-(

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