On 6/30/07, Thomas Zander <zander@kde.org> wrote:
> On Friday 29 June 2007 17:12:23 Fredy Yanardi wrote:
> > Hello all!
> >
> > I'm thinking of extending the KoTextEditing plugin to provide better
> > user interaction by:
> >
> > 1. Adding a submenu to the PluginHelperAction. Since the
> > PluginHelperAction inherits QAction, we can easily add a submenu via
> > setMenu(). The menu itself must provided by the plugin factory and
> > passed to the PluginHelperAction. The factory is also responsible for
> > passing the menu to the plugin and the plugin will connect every
> > action in the menu to its internal state.
> > Example of this functionality is the Changecase plugin, if user right
> > clicks a selection, the changecase plugin will show 5 submenu,
> > uppercase, lowercase, initial caps, sentence case, and toggle case.
>
> I have my doubts about this idea. Your usecase can easilly be solved by
> showing a dialog to ask the user which of the 4 he wants, and any other
> options the plugin could need.
> The submenu idea has a big disadvantage in that it doesn't scale. If I
> have a lot of plugins things just get unmanageable. Too many items in the
> context menu, and for apps that want to show the items in their own menu
> it would most probably mean a 3 level deep menu.
>
> Is there a way you can avoid having this? By showing a dialog when the
> user selects the menu item, for example?

Yes, I think the menu can be avoided actually by showing a dialog, I
was trying to do that partly just because I think it can be done. But
you're right, it would create a mess in the pop up menu ;)

> > 2. Providing undo for the KoTextEditingPlugin. The plugin will emit a
> > signal commandAvailable after it finishes processing the request and
> > the command will be added to the TextTool.
>
> This looks fine to me.
>
> > Attached patch shows my idea about the submenu and undo. I'm also
> > working on the changecase plugin which uses the submenu and undo. Any
> > comments on it?
>
> Apart from the submenu stuff, I think the patch looks good.

Ok, I just commited it.

Thanks,

Fredy Yanardi
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