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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: view management trouble ;)
From:       David Faure <faure () kde ! org>
Date:       1999-12-12 12:39:39
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On Sun, Dec 12, 1999 at 02:11:21AM +0100, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm a bit in trouble with the view management in konqy :)
> 
> Actually I'm wondering about two problems:
> 
> 1) We will want to provide an easy&fast way to remove passive views.
>    (the current way isn't, at least not for views which are forced to be
>     passive)
That's right...

>    The easiest approach coming to my mind is a small sort of close button
>    in the view frame. This however conflicts with the idea not to make the
>    splitter stuff in konqueror look like MDI .
>    I'm clueless :-)
Well it's still not exactly MDI (which would mean moving sub-windows around).
The problem is that the current checkbox and the close button would
look very much alike...

Anyway since the passive view that is the most often used is
the directory tree, your point 2) solves it for the most common case, no ?

> 2) We decided to have a menu item like "Show/Hide Directory Tree", in
>    order to provide a fast&easy way to make use of the dirtree (as the way
>    via Window->Load View Profile, etc. isn't that good) .
>    While it's quite easy to implement "Show Directory Tree" (like split
>    window and let the view on the left be a dirtree view), I'm clueless
>    about what the behaviour of "Hide Directory Tree" should be.
Hehe :-)

>    Should it be like:
>     a) Whatever views are available, remove the left/topmost dirtree.
>    or
>     b) get rid of all dirtree views (although I doubt that there will be
>        user having more than one dirtree ;-)
>    or
>     c) you_name_it :)

The most clever way would be that the option is available only if there is 
a dirtree, and it would remove it.

There can't be two, AFAICS... because "Show Directory Tree" is not available
when it's already shown, right ?
Since there is only one config for the dirtree, there's not really any 
point in showing two anyway.

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