From kfm-devel Sat May 26 19:15:19 2001 From: Jonathan Lee Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 19:15:19 +0000 To: kfm-devel Subject: RE: FWD: RE: FWD: A question about konqueror X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kfm-devel&m=99090467329918 To those helping flesh out an extension to the sidebar I apologize greatly. I told Carsten that I have a background in Java/Perl, and am currently attempting to learn C/C++ for this exercise. I am pleased to hear that the QT tabbed widgets are in place. It would seem that khelpcenter already created a base class for plugins to a tabbed widget, and two of the plugins discussed. What's the feasibilty of importing and extending that work into Konqueror directly. Second - Find is well developed in two forms currently in Konqueror, does anyone think that code is more or less robust than what is in khelpcenter's find system? I have yet to see qwertz's design with vertical tabs as the site is not up, however, I do not see why horizontal tabs would not suffice. Maybe adding a menu feature to turn certain tabs on and off as the user prefers. If someone can give me a solid technical reason why Konqueror's default setup cannot use the khelpcenter sidebar and classes for this I would appreciate it. Thanks. Jonathan Lee >===== Original Message From David Faure ===== >On Saturday 26 May 2001 18:10, Jonathan Lee wrote: >> Okay, here's the exciting scoop!! My wife was using the KDE 2.1.1 help system >> and commented to me, "hey isn't this tab thing in the sidebar what you were >> talking about working on?" The help system is run through Konqueror and >> somebody obviously decided to create a side bar with tabular structure. > >Well, Qt has tabbed widgets, that's no scoop :) >What needs to be done for konqueror isn't to write a tabbed-widget from scratch >(I didn't know you thought this was necessary :(, but simply to put together some >high-level design (base class) for plugins to go into that tabbed widget - and make >that tabbed widget provide a normal [toggle-]view in konqueror. > >This is very much like the current dirtree btw, which has itself a modular design >so that different "modules" can add their stuff into it. This could either remain as it >is, the current tree becoming one plugin in the future sidebar, or it could be turned into >one module per tab - thus separating bookmarks, history etc. from the directory tree. >This seems to be the idea behind qwertz's drawing anyway... Well, this depends on >what we want to do. In any case, the idea is roughly the same as the current >tree modules, except that each module would be in a tab instead of a subtree. > >But QTabWidget exists, yes. The only thing is, it only supports horizontal tabs >(as in khelpcenter, and any tabbed dialog) whereas qwertz's idea was to have >vertical tabs. This would need to build our own widget....... > >-- >David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org >http://perso.mandrakesoft.com/~david/, http://www.konqueror.org/ >KDE, Making The Future of Computing Available Today