RFC: KToolBox

[Matt Broadstone]

On 9/2/06, Gary L. Greene Jr. <greeneg at phoenuxos.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 02 September 2006 17:06, Matt Broadstone wrote:
> > Right - would probably help if I actually attached the class :)
> >
> > On 9/2/06, Matt Broadstone <mbroadst at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Attached is a replacement for the QToolBox that I have written. It's
> > > mainly intended to look MUCH better than the old tool box, but it has
> > > a few differences. Notably, there is no longer a concept of a "current
> > > page," as we had in QToolBox, also there is no longer a QScrollArea
> > > for each individual page in the toolbox, but instead one large one for
> > > the whole box. Lastly, you can choose a title and icon for the
> > > toolbox. Beyond that (sorry if I've forgotten anything) it tries to
> > > maintain as much of the api of the original QToolBox as possible so as
> > > to be somewhat of a drop-in replacement for it (not like ANYONE uses
> > > the QToolBox in kdelibs and kdebase, hopefully because it was too ugly
> > >
> > > :) ). Anyway - hope you all dig it, please let me know what you think
> > >
> > > can be improved, and hopefully we can get this in kdeui sooner than
> > > later.
> > >
> > > Matt Broadstone
>
> For those of us who are visual in nature, can you post somewhere a screenshot
> to look at? When I design UI, I like to have an idea how it looks first :)
Sure - I blogged on it yesterday, you can see it on my blog at
http://mbroadst.blogspot.com/2006/09/that-darned-qtoolbox.html

Cheers,
Matt