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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Changes in kapp
From:       Espen Sand <espensa () online ! no>
Date:       1999-09-19 15:55:29
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Using a plain setCaption() of course best. If that can be accomplished in a
general fashion for QDialog et al. then any other solution is inferiour. But in
the meantime I think it is best to at least have a solution at hand. Then, later
the makeStdCaption() can be turned into an empty inlined method that simply
returns the argument.

btw, I have for the extended DialogBase subclassed setCaption() to do just this.
The user just say setCaption( caption ) and out comes a caption with proper 
format. When and if Mirko Sucker can decide if the extension is acceptable 
(IT IS ;) then I will commit this to cvs. I use this in the version of khexedit
which I will upload later  today. Dialog creation has become very easy after
after I began using this class. It is named CDialogCore in khexedit.



>Hi
>
>Using KWM for this is a Bad Idea (TM). The window manager has no right to
>infere with the way apps want to display their name in the titlebar.
>
>A solution which can be much more uniform:
>
>overload the setCaption() of Qt and make it to detect (and eliminate) the
>presence of the appname at the start or at the end of the caption the
>programmer wants to set. If by this stripping the remaining is void or
>filled with white spaces, then forget about the filtering and let the app
>set the caption it wanted. If the remaining isn't void,  then call the
>makeStdCaption() on it.
>
>This way, all KDE applications (even those not made to comply with Espen's
>standard) will display the caption at user's will.
>
>What do you think?

-- 
Espen Sand

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