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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: How to load UI files directly be a factory?
From:       Dirk_Schönberger <dirk.schoenberger () sz-online ! de>
Date:       2003-09-11 20:04:08
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> for main window layouts of sidebars, readerviews, etc... well, there is
room
> for improvement there (i hate dockwindows =), and this is something that
> XMLUI could be very good at.

> but not widget-level layouting... =)

Not really layouting.
More something like

<Dialog>
<Page>
<Group label="Person properties">
<Action name="NameChanged" />
<Action name="FirstName" />
</Group>
<Tree>
&personProperties;
</Tree>
</Page>
</Dialog>

as in a normal XMLGUI file.
The developer decides what functionality he wants to provide.
The user decides how he want to be represented it (List <-> Tree),
TabbedPane vs PageList (or whatever its name is), Grouping,
more or less exhaustive dialog texts.

More complex tasks could be done with merging of default dialogs. Wan to
follow Gnome HIG with its reversed button order, fine.
change the dialog.rc resource...

If this is really useful this could lead to new design contests -> define a
new Kate search dialog.

Regards
Dirk






 
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