From kde-core-devel  Thu Feb 15 20:00:50 2007
From: Andreas Pakulat <apaku () gmx ! de>
Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2007 20:00:50 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: QTabWidget change request
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On 15.02.07 18:38:38, Robert Knight wrote:
> >I hope you agree that the border is not a problem when there are multiple 
> >tabs.
> 
> In is a problem when the tab widget fills the entire window in the
> case of Konsole or Konqueror.
> In both those cases, the border at the bottom of the screen looks unpleasant.
> 
> It is also inappropriate if there are already other visual borders
> between the area occupied by the tab widget, and other widgets in the
> user interface.  This will occur in many applications which use a tab
> widget as their central display widget, such as KDevelop for example.

As mentioned in a thread on kde-devel: KDevelop4 and any app based on
the KDevPlatform won't be using a regular Q/KTabWidget.

Other than that, I do agree that people shouldn't be forced to "build"
their own tabwidget out of QTabBar and QStackedWidget just to get rid of
any borders.

Andreas

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