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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: docked apps' behavior
From:       Stefan Taferner <taferner () salzburg ! co ! at>
Date:       1998-02-22 16:31:21
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On Sun, 22 Feb 1998, Markus Wuebben wrote:
>On Sat, 21 Feb 1998, Russ Steffen wrote:
>> On 21-Feb-98, Carsten Pfeiffer <carpdjih@cetus.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> wrote:
>> > 
>> > I have a general question, about the behavior of docked applications.
>> > 
>> > In Win95, they are a mess, every little tool behaves different, some on single
>> > leftclick, some on single rightclick, others on doubleclick, sometimes with a
>> > popupmenu...
>> > IMO there should be a standard way in KDE to launch their gui, quit them,
>> > etc. So how should this standard be defined?
>> > Should every docked app have an RMB popupmenu with at least "Launch", "Help" and
>> > "Quit" as entries? Additionally a doubleclick launches the gui, too?
>> > What do you think?

We always tried to avoid double-clicks. So I would suggest to use a LMB
single-click.

A RMB menu is fine.  How about "open" instead of "launch" ?  I think this is
the standard name for this functionality.

>> Perhaps there should be a KDockedApp or KDockedWindow base class that could
>> provide some consistant operations for docked apps.
>
>I like that idea. Making a base class widget and deriving all others from
>it. sound good to me.

Yes.

I think the vital point is that we should write a styleguide on how docked
apps shall behave in Kde.  So everybody can obey the styleguide, even
if said base classes are not used.

Carsten, are you interested and capable of writing a first draft of such
a styleguide ?

Kind regards, Stefan

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