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List:       kopete-devel
Subject:    Re: [kopete-devel] [PATCH] Chatwindow tabs on the side
From:       Matt Rogers <mattr () kde ! org>
Date:       2006-01-04 13:24:50
Message-ID: 200601040724.54515.mattr () kde ! org
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On Wednesday 04 January 2006 01:45, Olivier Goffart wrote:
> Le Mercredi 4 Janvier 2006 08:29, Olivier Goffart a écrit  :
> > Le Mercredi 4 Janvier 2006 05:14, Matt Rogers a écrit  :
> > > I've attached the current implementation of the tabs on the side that
> > > i'm doing for Linspire. It could still use a bit of polish and
> > > finishing, but I'd still like to get people's opinions on how much you
> > > like it, if you hate it, etc.
>
> [...]
>
> > > Please test and provide feedback. Based on the feedback, I'll either
> > > commit this to Kopete proper once all the feedback is taken in to
> > > account, or I'll just keep it private for the Linspire folks.
> > >
> > > Thanks
> >
> > Screenshot ?
>
> No offense, this was just an imitation of
> http://lists.kde.org/?l=kopete-devel&m=113625114822823&w=2
> ;-p
>
> You also forgot to put kopetetabwidget.{cpp,h}
>


>
> I'd say that once problems fixed, this should go in kdelibs for kde 4
> Kopete should continue to use KDE standard KDE widgets
>
> (anyway, you can maybe commit it in dev-0.12 temporarely)
>

QTabWidget in Qt 4 already provides vertical tabs, so this is just for the KDE 
3 series, hence the reason I'm asking for feedback since it's only been 
implemented at the request of somebody else for their distribution.

> > > Here are the things that I know are wrong with it:
> > >
> > > - you're stuck with tabs on the side for the moment. I haven't
> > > implemented the code that switches from tabs on the side to tabs on the
> > > top/bottom.
>
> Is that because it is difficult ? or impossible ?
> it should be required.
>

it's not implemented only because I haven't written it yet. I have every 
intention on making it work both ways, I just haven't done so yet.


> > > - long nicknames make the chat message area ridiciously small. Yes, it
> > > just requires a squeeze of the text for the button label, but I haven't
> > > done that yet.
>
> what about text wrote vertically like in kate/kdevelop ?

that's done with kmultitabbar, which I didn't want to use due to it's weird, 
and nearly unusable API.
-- 
Matt

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