Proposal for new system (was: Re: How does the SpecialSpacer system work?)

[C. Boemann]

On Saturday 07 April 2012 16:00:01 Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> So currently all optionwidgets need to add a SpecialSpacer to signal that
> there is no UI gain in letting them stretch if put together with others.
> 
> I wonder if this system could perhaps be reversed.
> E.g. by that all those optionwidgets which gain from being stretched have a
> QObject property set to mark that they have a desire to get stretched.
> 
> 	optionWidgetWithList->setProperty("CA_STRETCH_ME", QVariant(true));
> 
> And modebox and tooldocker would just search for any optionwidget which has
> this property set and true and only add the bottom spacer if none has this.
> 
> Pros:
> * there are less optionwidgets which need to be marked,
>   so less chances to forget this marker
> * saves the memory footprint for the additional SpecialSpacer widgets
>   and enlarged layouts
> * no need to loop over all widgets in an optionwidget
> 
> Cons:
> * needs someone to implement this (okay, I will do it)
> * ?
> 
> What do you think? Should I prepare a patch doing that?
> 
> Cheers
> Friedrich
> 
> _______________________________________________
> calligra-devel mailing list
> calligra-devel at kde.org
> https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel
fine with me, if you can make it work