On July 19th, 2012, 9:04 a.m., Marco Martin wrote:

thanks, wouldn;t have remembered ;)

the changes seems good, but i'm not sure about giving kickoff a copy of the tabbar.

any reason this is not proposed as a patch for the tabbar component itself?

On July 19th, 2012, 12:55 p.m., Greg T wrote:

Of course I could do that. But I didn't know if such a general change would be welcome. Maybe people love equally sized blocks?

On July 19th, 2012, 2:23 p.m., Marco Martin wrote:

i really think we shouldn't start to customize the components in a single applet like that.

what could be done is:
as implicit width of the tabbar should be a width such that all tabs have the same width that is the one of the largest tab, so by default it would attempt to never elide (probably some work in the bindings is needed to export this as preferred width of the applet).

if it's forced to be smaller it starts to elide the text.

On July 20th, 2012, 6 p.m., Greg T wrote:

I'm not sure if I can follow you, but basically you describe the current behavior. Every TabButton got a 'implicitHeight: label.paintedHeight' and the layout calculates a minimum implicitWidth that doesn't elide text. The export is missing, though.

basically would be kickoff opening by default wide enough to make all text fit (maybe still not going over a maximum width)

i'm not sure what's still missing in the bindings to make this feasible tough

- Marco

On July 1st, 2012, 8:42 p.m., Greg T wrote:

Heda,
This patch addresses the layout of the tab bar. The tab buttons are now sized depending of their text width.

I just copied the tabbar code from kde-runtime and exchanged taskbarLayout. My main question is: Can I do this more elegantly without copying TabBar.qml?