RFC: KToolBox

[Gary L. Greene Jr.]

On Saturday 02 September 2006 17:52, Matt Broadstone wrote:
> On 9/2/06, Gary L. Greene Jr. <greeneg at phoenuxos.com> wrote:
> > On Saturday 02 September 2006 17:16, Matt Broadstone wrote:
> > > 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
> >
> > Nice, so I take it that the tab widget in it can have it's colour
> > customized? Either that or another colour option in the global colour
> > selection needs added (tab colour or some such.)
>
> Well actually, considering that was one of the reasons I made this
> versus using the QToolBox I _should_ add the ability to change the
> color of tabs. Do you think it would be useful to be able to change
> individual tab colors, or just the global tab color and global header
> color? Currently these values are hardcoded in as Qt::darkGray and
> Qt::lightGray..
>
> Matt

Personally, I'm in favour of having a global so that it can be desktop wide 
for good KDE cohesiveness for the accessibility themes, though the decision 
for that should lay with the usability people on the usability lists.
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