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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KMultiActionButton
From:       Michaël_Larouche <larouche () kde ! org>
Date:       2006-12-05 23:44:17
Message-ID: 200612051844.22278.larouche () kde ! org
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Le December 5, 2006 17:50, Aaron J. Seigo a écrit :
> 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.

Ah thanks I understand better now :)

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