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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KMultiActionButton
From:       "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () kde ! org>
Date:       2006-12-05 22:50:20
Message-ID: 200612051550.27105.aseigo () kde ! org
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On Tuesday 05 December 2006 15:22, Michaël Larouche wrote:
> Can you give a use case of your new widget ? Why would I want to group
> actions in toolbar so close to each other ?

ah, right, sorry i forgot you can't see inside my head ;)

both vista and macos have these things and the purpose is to create greater 
visual grouping in toolbars between related options. e.g in safari  
forward/backwards are one "button"; in the new MS office the alignment 
options (center/left/right/justified) are one "button", etc ...

http://www.nawaat.org/portail/IMG/jpg/nawaat-safari-macosX.jpg
http://aarakast.de/wp-content/uploads/microsoft-office-2007.jpg

as i understand it the idea is twofold:

 - more compact / less cluttered toolbars
 - reflect semantic relationships between actions better

it would be nice if qtoolbar itself respected groups in this way, but it 
doesn't. this seems to be a decent way to work around that.

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