[PATCH] Scrollable page dialogs

[Matthias Kretz]

On Wednesday 19 December 2007, Aurélien Gâteau wrote:
> Hello,
>
> While working on SystemSettings module size problems, I thought it would be
> nicer to prevent the bottom button bar from scrolling. Digging in the code
> I realized I needed to patch KPageView, so it would impact all KDE dialogs.
>
> Attached are two patches, the kdeui one which adds scrollbars to KPageView
> if necessary, the other one removes QScrollArea from SystemSettings, as
> it's no longer needed.
>
> Here are a series of screenshots showing the difference. All shots were
> made using the default SystemSettings size.
>
> - Network / Proxy
> Before: http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/2037/beforenetworkproxyty8.png
> After: http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/950/afternetworkproxyhg5.png
>
> - Accessibility
> Before: http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/4717/beforea11ykq2.png
> After: http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/8915/aftera11ykz2.png
>
> As I said, this patch impacts all KDE KPageDialog instances. For example,
> the Konqueror settings dialog does not resize itself anymore[1] when
> switching between pages. Here is a screenshot:
>
> http://img179.imageshack.us/img179/8184/afterkonqsettingsht3.png
>
> Do you think this should go in? Or should I try to work on a patch which
> would only affect SystemSettings?

Does Systemsettings use a KPageView directly or does it use KCMultiDialog? 
Because the latter already implements the correct scrollbar behaviour AFAIR.

And I agree with Tobias that we should take care to not encourage this 
behaviour and therefore not add it to KPageView.

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