Re: "Modern" GUI style

Hi

I'm still working at document list saving. Somehow the urls get lost, if there 
is no view created with Christoph's saveDocumentsAtClose hack. I'm still 
investigating, why that happens, but I don't have much time

On Tuesday 23 July 2002 18:28, Anders Lund wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> The new GUI style is still needing a lot of work, if we are going to
> release it, and esp if it going to be the default.
>
> Most important, dragging tool views does not work. In some cases, you get
> empty kdockwidgets, and it is possible to cause kate to hang in a infinite
> loop during shutdown. To see, do
>
> * Open views in left and bottom dock areas.
> * Drag a view from the left area to a position above the bottom area.
> * Drag that view to one of the dock areas.
>
> Result: an empty KDockWidget, infinite loop during shutdown.
>

Known bug. I wanted to solve it in the kdockwidget, that docking operations to 
the mainview get redirected to the containers. I'll look at Christoph's fix 
first though.

>
> The button bars looks like shit (sorry), though that is a minor, easily
> fixable problem. However, the problems are
> * horizontal button bars downright dosen't work graphically
> * wrong colors are used. Normal colors (for button and inactive) should be
>   used.
> * 3D effects should be fixed, so that the button bars has clean borders and
>   the meaning and state of any part is clearly expressed in any
> circumstance.
>

Feel free to fix the horizontal mode. Please be cautious with the vertical 
mode. That effect's konqueror's sidebar too

> Some more serious considerations:
>
> The integration with KDockWidget is not good enough. KDockWidget presents
> some GUI elements that signals a behaviour, which should be adhered to.
>
>

The dockwidget in this mode should only be dockabe into containers and the 
desktop


> I can drag tool views by the header, but the view needs be active. I
> suggest the buttons made draggable to other button panes.
>

I've noticed that feature in Borland Delphi 6 ( Which I use for development in 
my job). Would be nice for the normal tab mode too

> If I drag a view to a button bar, a square is drawn to indicate its drop
> position, but the square is not erased after drop.
>
> The button bars has a splitter widget next to them when all views are
> hidden, with a resize cursor, but can not be resized in that situation. So,
> the splitter should not be drawn.
>
> I miss the option to have more views in the dock area, for example the file
> selector below the file list. I suggest when a passive button is activated,
> the area is split if all current views has the sticky button down, if not
> the first view with the sticky button up will be replaced.
>

That doesn't exist in IDEA idea, which Christoph wanted to have implemented. 
More then one visible view is possible, but I don't have time for that at the 
moment.

Kind regards
Joseph Wenninger

PS: There are still a few bugs in the code folding parser and in the icon 
border updates. Someone interested in helping ?

Kind regards
Joseph Wenninger