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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Waste of space in konqueror's sidebar
From:       Christoph Bartoschek <bartoschek () gmx ! de>
Date:       2002-08-29 20:56:31
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Hi,

I've got a 17" CRT which runs with 1024x768. That's not much and one has 
to use given space rationally. So much the worse nearly all KDE 
Applications waste in the default configuration screen space with 
vertically wide menu bars, big icons, ... .

There was only one thing I liked in windows before XP more than in KDE. 
The work area in Windows Explorer, Word or Excel was much bigger than 
in Konqueror, KWord or KSpread. Of course you can configure a lot of 
things smaller, but thats exhausting. The size of the work area has a 
intense influence on the effectiveness of the work.

Now to my subject:

Konquerors sidebar is per default unusable, if you don't work in 
maximized or fullscreen mode, because the work area is too small. From 
the third directory level on you have to scroll horizontally. There are 
two reasons one should consider:

I. rootIsDecorated is set true.
II. treeStepSize has a value of 20.

1. rootIsDecorated should be set false. It is only needed by modules 
like Network or Services. But these can get a root node like History or 
Bookmarks. Given this modification Network or Services loose nothing, 
but all other modules gain a lot of space.

2. You should consider treeStepSize of 15 or less. I've compiled 
konqueror with 15 and it is enough.

With both modifications I've gained three more directory depth levels 
without a horizontal scroll bar.

I've changed kdebase/konqueror/sidebar/trees/konq_sidebartree.cpp.
true got false in KonqSidebarTree::clearTree() and the constructor got a
setTreeStepSize(15);

Maybe setTreeStepSize(false) has negative effects on higher resolutions, 
but setRootIsDecorated is always favorably.

Regards

Christoph 
 
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