Why not using the widget Kate uses for its sidebar? I mean the one which 
dispays the "Filelist" and the "Fileselector".

cu, 
  Emmy
On Sunday 27 May 2001 04:23, Carsten Pfeiffer wrote:
> On Samstag, 26. Mai 2001 21:15 Jonathan Lee wrote:
> > 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
>
> I think those are not plugin based, but simply hardcoded.
>
> > 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
>
> The kfind part in konqueror (maybe not the big gui, but the backend) is
> certainly reusable. No need to reinvent that.
>
> > 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
>
> The sidebar is not very wide, so you won't get more than 3 tabs into it.
>
> > 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.
>
> khelpcenter's sidebar is not extensible. It's just a QTabWidget with three
> tabs. Konqueror is about genericity. Not much is hardcoded, it's more a
> shell for all sorts of "plugins".
>
> Cheers,
> Carsten Pfeiffer