From kde-devel  Tue Apr 29 17:11:00 2008
From: Dominik Haumann <dhdev () gmx ! de>
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 17:11:00 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: KNumInput::setLabel and ugly dialogs
Message-Id: <200804291911.00891.dhdev () gmx ! de>
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On Sunday 27 April 2008, Holger Freyther wrote:
> Hey,
>
> I toyed a bit with KDE4.0 and was a bit upset by setting dialogs like the
> one attached to the screenshot. I looked a bit at the code and I lack
> ideas how to fix the root cause.
>
> What these dialogs have in common are:
> 	- One got some kind of a BoxLayout
> 	- One adds a couple of KNumInput derived classes into the layout
> 	- One uses KNumInput::setLabel
>
> As I said above I lack ideas how to fix the KNumInputs so that they align
> properly. For kcm_keys I ditched the KNumInput::setLabel, created a label
> myself, used QLabel::setBuddy and put everything into a QFormLayout.
> Specially the last bit is the important one. By using a QFormLayout we
> make sure the label and input area are properly aligned.
>
> Is there anything we can do to KNumInput to fix it? Using a layout, using
> a QSpacerIterm? Provide a QLabel* KNumInput::label() and then put that
> into a QFormLayout ourselves?
>
> comments
> 	z.

I wonder why we need the class at all: QLabel + QSpinBox usually should do 
the trick, then you can use a grid layout.

Dominik
 
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