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List:       kde-i18n
Subject:    Re: KMultiPanner
From:       David Faure <faure () kde ! org>
Date:       1999-03-10 19:36:03
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On Wed, Mar 10, 1999 at 03:46:21PM +0100, Matthias Welk wrote:
> I have implemented a first version of a KMultiPanner which can be downloaded
> under:
> http://www.fokus.gmd.de/research/cc/cats/employees/matthias.welk/private/kmultipanner_0.1.tgz
> 
> What is already done:
> - add children
> - set active child
> 
> What is planned:
> - remove children (of course)
> - draw visual feedback of the active child

> Known problems:
> - rubber band of nested splitters is not drawn
> - children can only be added to a splitter at first or at last (this is a
> limitation imposed by the qt-api)

Tried kmultipanner :

I have a big buggy gray area on the top of the window. Doesn't appear in
your snapshot :)
Moving panners give no visual feedback (BTW Qt lets you choose between opaque
resize or the simple black line moving).

Now the big question : 

You know I implemented in konqueror the use of
QSplitters, nested just like in the qsplitter example.
Do we really need our own widget ? Just imagine an icon view in every area
of your snapshot.
Each view is just too small for showing a usable icon view. Which means
that the user will probably never want to do such a complicated setup,
don't you think ?

Sorry for this bad welcome to your widget. I think it's a lot better for us 
to use a Qt widget, maintained by TT (hum, and for which I already sent two 
mails to bugs@troll.no about possible improvements), than our own,
especially if the user will never use it anyway.

But this is only my opinion. What about others' ?

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David FAURE
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