[Kbabel] Re: next version

Stanislav Visnovsky visnovsky@nenya.ms.mff.cuni.cz
Fri, 6 Dec 2002 16:25:41 +0100 (CET)


On Thu, 5 Dec 2002, Marco Wegner wrote:

> >
> > Don't know now to handle this. Tooltips are so convenient...  (therefore
> > cc-ing KBabel list). Maybe a status bar could be used as well, but hardly
> > for the notes.
> 
> Without having thought about this for too long:
> 
> What about a struct/class which can store a note as well as the 'cvs status' 
> for a certain file. Not every file will have a note, and not for every file 
> will there be the output of 'cvs status'. These structs can be stored on 
> demand in a QDict or something similar. The method 
> CatalogManagerView::updateFile() will then have a look if there is such a 
> struct stored for the current file. If so the tooltip will be displayed. The 
> struct can even be used to save the notes to the disk.

Sure, this is a back-end. I'm wondering about the presentation - tool tip 
should not be overhelming.

Stanislav