Inconsistent order of tool views

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 20.11.09 09:49:51, Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen wrote:
> On Friday 20 November 2009 09:27:04 Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > On 20.11.09 07:53:11, Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen wrote:
> > > On Thursday 19 November 2009 22:37:40 David Nolden wrote:
> > > > Am Donnerstag 19 November 2009 20:41:45 schrieb Dan Leinir Turthra 
> Jensen:
> > > > >   Certainly :) The idea is simple - use up all the space of the
> > > > > sidebar, rather than bunching it all up in one end. Another thing
> > > > > which is fixed by doing it this way is that the current solution has
> > > > > differently sized tabs, which even change sizes when you change tabs.
> > > > > A screenshot here:
> > > > > http://jakilinux.org/wp-content/uploads/2007/03/vol12_356_amarok.png
> > > >
> > > > For amarok it's ok as it has really many items there, but generally I
> > > > don't like that. It's like tabs that automatically distribute over the
> > > > whole tab-bar (we had that at some point in time, and it sucked). It
> > > > forces you to move your mouse and your eyes over long distances
> > > > completely unnecessarily.
> > >
> > >   That is of course true. The main point is still there, though - the
> > > tabs change size between active and not active. That is really not good,
> > > since it requires muscle memory to change between contexts, and that
> > > simply does not happen :)
> > 
> > I suggest that you complain about that to the developer of the style
> > you're using. Here (using QtCurve) the tabs have the same size, no
> > matter wether the toolview attached to it is active or non-active.
> > 
> > Or we're misunderstanding each other, in which case 2 screenshots
> > before/after would be good for clarification.
> 
>   No, you are right - i remembered a problem we had with the default styles in 
> KDE3, but that of course no longer exists in Oxygen (those guys are design 
> heros, seriously).

They're not the only ones producing good styles though :P (And I
personally don't like the animations when switching between tabs, among
other things)

> While looking at that, however, i spotted a minor problem - the
> sidebars change sizes when you switch between them... which seems very
> odd to me, but... i obviously have no idea what's causing it or what
> it would take to fix that ;)

Reproduced here with QtCurve, it seems that the initial size of the
toolviews is different (probably according to the sizehint), but once
you resize the toolview they all have the same size. Feel free to report
a bug (kdevplatform/sublime), but don't expect a fix ;)

Andreas

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