[PATCH] Scrollable page dialogs

Aurélien Gâteau aurelien.gateau at free.fr
Fri Dec 21 12:43:56 GMT 2007


Sebastian Kuegler wrote:

> On Thursday 20 December 2007 23:45:17 Aurélien Gâteau wrote:
>> Aurélien Gâteau wrote:
>> > Nevertheless, I see your point about not making a change which would
>> > impact all KDE dialogs, especially at a time were the next release is
>> > not an rc. I am going to see if I can figure a way to do add scrollbars
>> > to SystemSettings modules only.
>>
>> While I still believe having scrollbars on all overgrowing KDE dialogs
>> would be a good idea, since it is what the HIG recommends, I worked this
>> evening on a SystemSettings specific implementation. Attached patch adds
>> QScrollArea to SystemSettings modules only.
>>
>> So the question is: which patch (if any) should I apply?
> 
> I'm not aware of any dialogue that has those pretty real problems that are
> in systemsettings. Give that and being close to release, the
> systemsettings-specific patch sounds more appropriate (less risky) to me.
> 
> And it should be done quickly so we can spot possible problems.

Sounds good to me. Unless someone objects, I will commit the systemsettings
patch.
As for other dialog having problems, have a look at Konqueror config
dialog... Maybe we could apply the KDE wide patch early in the 4.1
development so that people get the time to fix their dialogs?

Aurélien





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