KListBox/KIconView/KListView

[Benjamin Meyer]

On Monday 11 December 2006 10:50 am, David Faure wrote:
> On Sunday 01 January 2006 16:24, Till Adam wrote:
> > Today I looked into porting KListBox, since I need it for KLineEdit,
> > where it's used for the completion box, which I need for KInputDialog,
> > which was the thing I initially wanted to port. As far as I can see the
> > raison d'etre for KListBox, KIconView and to an extend also KListView is
> > treefold:
> >
> > 1) support for honoring the system settings for single/double click
> > selection of items
> >
> > 2) support for timer based auto-selection on hover
> > 3) mouse cursor change over items.
>
> Hi Till,
> Today I looked at KListBox and found pretty much the same as you did a year
> ago ;-)
>
> 1) is not addressed yet. I heard rumours of a "proxy style" which would
> forward all calls to another style, allowing to change the behavior of one
> method from any existing style? If we had that, we could use such a proxy
> qstyle for itemviews, to make it return the right value for
> QStyle::SH_ItemView_ActivateItemOnSingleClick, independently from the
> actual style implementation.
>
>
> Benjamin: if you don't think there should be a KListView and KListWidget,
> then 2) and 3) need to be in QListView. Do you think this would be
> possible?

There was the idea floating around of adding support so that the setting could 
be set in qconfig, but I have not followed up on this.

> You wrote:
> > I am not sure what you are referring to with number 2  looking at the
> > klistbox. klistview and kiconview docs I don't see any mention of a timer
> > or hover.
>
> This is auto-selection, as can be configured in KControl in kde3 (and as
> Windows does in single-click mode).
> You leave the mouse over an item, and after a few seconds it gets selected
> automatically. This goes very well with single click mode. As does mouse
> cursor change over items, to indicate that single-click will activate.

Hmm, don't have a windows box here, but in OS X it doesn't occur.  Perhaps 
this should be added as a style option.

-Benjamin Meyer

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