From kde-devel Thu May 13 15:53:46 1999 From: Matthias Ettrich Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 15:53:46 +0000 To: kde-devel Subject: Re: Applets? [ was: Re: kde mp3 player] X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-devel&m=92662816331917 On Thu, 13 May 1999, Sirtaj Singh Kang wrote: >On Thu, 13 May 1999, Matthias Ettrich wrote: >> >> What really want is the possibility to drag certain items as new >> toolbuttons on a custom toolbar, no? > >Hi, > >A few days ago I checked two classes KAction and KUIActions into kdeui, >which allow the creation of descriptively named actions which connect to >signals and slots (similar to KAccel). Each action can be connected to a >menu item, accel and/or button. Also, each action can have an iconset >defined for it. yes! > >These are still under heavy development, and I am writing some frameworks >for easily creating menus and toolbars using these actions. Once this is >done, writing dialogs for customizing accels, iconsets and toolbars using >these should be quite straightforward. yes! > >I did not want to announce anything till I had something clearly superior >to what is currently available, but you've forced my hand... ;) I just >wanted to let you guys know so that nobody starts something similar. The >classes already work, but are not yet useful to begin using in apps until >the toolbar- and menu- creating classes are done. I wrote similar classes ( unfortunately bound tightly to a non-open-source project so I don't own the code ). We have plans, however, for something like this for later Qt versions (not 2.0). Great that KDE gets it even faster now :-) Matthias > >-Taj. > >Sirtaj S. Kang taj@kde.org ssk@physics.unimelb.edu.au >Univ of Melbourne > "I'm a commercial operating system." > -Doug Michels (CEO SCO)