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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Tab-Close button like in mozilla
From:       Douglas Hanley <douglash () caltech ! edu>
Date:       2002-11-05 22:35:35
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On Tuesday 05 November 2002 02:00 pm, Zack Rusin wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 November 2002 16:32, Troy Corbin Jr. wrote:
> > I've been working on a similar widget set, though it does use the
> > current QTabWidget:
> >
> > http://knights.sourceforge.net/shots/ss06.jpg
> >
> > It uses the 'Close' icon from the user's selected icon set for a
> > consistent look. It also includes a "Grip" which the user can drag to
> > organize the tabs into different top-level window. ( ie. Dragging a
> > tab onto another tab will cause it to move to the destination's
> > QTabWidget, while dragging it anywhere else will create a new
> > top-level window w/ QTabWidget for it to be attached to. ) The
> > TabManager class is used to organize everything, and it saves the
> > widget's geometry on close.
>
> Great work. Unfortunately this won't bring us too far forward. Problems
> with QTabWidget go beyond the close button dilemma. Different projects
> need different things : Kopete needs to change the color of the tabs in
> the tabbar, Konqueror needs the ability to add/change widgets to tabs
> on the fly, etc. Those things can't be done with QTabWidget. And
> although I like your idea with the close button a lot it probably
> wouldn't work all that well within Konqueror as it takes some space
> away from the main tab widget, limiting the viewing area.
>
> Zack

So do you think it would be a better idea to make the rewrite more of a 
KTabWidget that can used by all of KDE rather than just a KonqTabWidget?  If 
that is the case than it wouldn't be too hard for me to move my code out of 
Konqueror and into a library.

-- Doug
 
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