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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: KSpread looks overloaded
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2000-11-11 23:18:55
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On Sunday 15 October 2000 19:29, Torsten Rahn wrote:
> A complain I hear *VERY* often once I start kspread
> on expos at our kde-booth is that it looks way
> too complicated. Usually there are four 
> toolbar-rows by default.  
> This scares the user as he feels lost and on tiny displays
> it makes the GUI cover almost the full screen while
> leaving very few space for the document itself.
> 
> Not showing the Formula-toolbar by default would make 
> a lot of sense to me. People who need Formulas can still
> easily switch them on by clicking on 
> 
> Settings -> Show Formula Toolbar
> 
> That way kspread would have three toolbar-rows which 
> would only show the most common items. 
> One might also think about not-showing Colors/Borders 
> by default but not-showing formulas helps already 
> quite a lot. 

OK, I just committed this :

koffice/lib/kofficecore koMainWindow.cc,1.159,1.160 koMainWindow.h,1.52,1.53
Author: faure
Sat Nov 11 23:13:35 UTC 2000

Modified Files:
         koMainWindow.cc koMainWindow.h 
Log Message:
Improved handling of toolbar menu. Showing/hiding toolbars immediately saves
the setting, and it's correctly restored next time. Used Simon's containers()
method to list the toolbars in proper order (from the XML). Also added
an event filter, as discussed in Erlangen, so that the app can hide a
toolbar, and the menu item updates appropriately.

To application authors : you can use <ToolBar hidden="true" ...> for toolbars
that should be hidden on the first startup [this gets overriden by user's
actions in the toolbars menu, of course].

I added two such flags for KWord and KSpread, but I'll let the authors take the
decisions about which toolbars to show.

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