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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: doubleClicked in toolbar/KAction
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2000-06-04 22:32:52
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On Sun, 04 Jun 2000, Lotzi Boloni wrote:
> > > > Unless this double-click on toolbar-button thing becomes very common,
> > > > I think this is good enough. BTW, do many users find out that trick ?
> > > > :-)
> > >
> > >   I don't know about others, but I would love to use something like
> > > this to implement renaming of the konsole buttons. And there are other
> > > cases... Maybe something like KMultipleAction where two or three
> > > actions are linked to the same widget (for Click, DoubleClick,
> > > Shift-Click, LeftClick etc.).
> >
> > Why not... but wouldn't it be wiser to use a RMB popup for this ?
> > Remove session might be the next candidate for the popup, then assign
> > shortcut, then move (like kicker buttons) :) etc...
>
>   Well, that would be also fine, but even that is possible only by hacking
> plug. I guess, the general problem is that we have the one widget = one
> action assumption. Hmm, it would be nice to have an elegant solution for
> this. Maybe:
>
>   action->addSecondaryAction("RightClick", SLOT(popup()));
>   action->addSecondaryAction("DoubleClick", SLOT(rename());
>   action->plug(toolbar); // sets the primary and secondary actions
>   action->plug(menubar); // sets the primary and secondaries which
> apply to menubar

I don't see any possibility to support "DoubleClick" since I can't think of a 
way to support that and still respect the users "use single click" setting.

RMB support seems the way to go. Something like:

action->addRMBAction(.....).. which then adds the action to a RMB popup 
menu...

Cheers,
Waldo
 
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