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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    RE: FWD: RE: FWD: A question about konqueror
From:       Jonathan Lee <jel846s () smsu ! edu>
Date:       2001-05-26 19:15:19
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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 <david@mandrakesoft.com> =====
>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

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