On Sun, 14 Feb 1999, David Faure wrote:
[....]
>> >Does this mean that a foreign application can either embed only a
>> >special selection of the available views or via kfmgui all-in-one? So
>> >kfmgui is somehow another layer between the views and the KfmMainWindow?
>> >Then my favorite would also be solution 2.
>> 
>> Exactly!
>
>That's a very good thing, then. We want other apps to be able to embed
>either one view or all of them...

Let's hope we'll succeed in making konqueror a collection of nice
components :-)

>> KfmGui as layer would contain all the panner-stuff you're currently discussing
>> about and some general menus. (did I forgot anything?)

We might create a KfmView interface for each possible kfm view. Then we might
create four view interfaces, derived from the KfmView interface (speaking in
IDL) :

(just a quick-one-minute draft)

interface KfmGui: KOM::Base
{
  (see below for further details)
}

interface KfmView : OpenParts::Part, KfmGui
{
  void openURL( in string url );
  string url();

  What else can be here?
}

interface IconView : KfmView
{
  view specific stuff
}

interface TreeView : KfmView
{
  view specific stuff
}

interface HTMLView : KfmView
{
  view specific stuff
}

//a view for part plugins, with one speciality: On activation it doesn't make
//use of KfmGui to create *bars but instead really activate it's part
interface PluginView : KfmView  
{
  setPart( in OpenParts::Part part );
  OpenParts::Part part();

  what else can be here?
}

And then there's (the current) KfmGui, renamed to KfmMainView to avoid
name conflicts with the already defined interface:

interface KfmMainView : OpenParts::Part, KfmGui
{
  (...all the current stuff...)

  addView( in KfmView view ); //this is for the kmultipanner/qsplitter-guys ;)
  KfmView view();

  plus some other stuff
}

>> But this brings me to another point: What could possible view-related menus
>> contain? What for example could be html-view related menu entries?
>> 
>> Putting it in other words:
>> How should the menus for
>>  a) kfmgui
>>  b) the specific views
>> look like?
>
>a) : everything in the current konqueror (plus some items in the Options
>menu that were in kfm II), except b) below   :)
>
>b) : The current View menu, with "Split window" removed, of course.
>It's the only menu that contain View-specific stuff (view mode, html mode,
>show dot files, ...)
>
>The problem is that if you embed a kfmview in another app, you might want
>to be able to access the menuitems currently found in most other menus (File,
>Edit, Bookmark). I don't remember how it works for KOffice. How are the
>file / edit / help / ... menus merged ?
>Does the app shows the menus of the embedded app only ?

Yes, there's no merging for the menus.

But for our menu-merging-whatever problem I've got a piece of an idea (I did
not finishing thinking about it, so it's just a quit draft. Maybe it even
doesn't work... ) :

We might create an special KfmGui interface which every kfm view and kfmgui
_has_ to inherit from, too. This interface is responsible for creating all
general menus (and the konqueror toolbars, too) and might in addition provide a
pure virtual function which gets called upon creation for the menus. This
function has to be implemented in every kfm-view and should create only the (or
only one?) view specific menu(s) .

The point is that a kfm-view doesn't map the createMenuBar event but instead
this event is eaten (and used :) ) by our KfmGui interface, which then builds
all the general menus and then gives the kfmview (or KfmMainView) a chance to
build it's specific menus.

Another point is the focus of "embedded" views in case we use KfmMainView.....


Hm... I see that there's a lot more to think of. Actually I'm running out of
time for further thoughts about it (for today), but I hope I can finish my
thoughts tomorrow :-) . 

This is just a short draft kicked out of my brain's door into the world of
flame emails ;-))

Ciao,
 Simon (...dreaming of the future's konqueror 8)

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