[RFC] KInformationLabel

[David Jarvie]

On Monday 12 March 2007 02:17:41 Michaël Larouche wrote:
> Le March 3, 2007 12:56, Michaël Larouche a écrit :
> > I have been working (slowy) on a new widget for kdelibs.
> >
> > It is a small label to display message in a dialog. The label is first
> > hidden when instancied and only show up when a message is affected to the
> > label. This is similiar to the ErrorNotifier control in Windows Forms.
> > This widget will be useful to replace message box in dialog like Ask
> > Password dialog and other non-modal dialogs.
> >
> > This is a work in progress of course and not all planned features are not
> > implemented. I would like to add a autohide timeout to the widget. I
> > tried to add FadeIn animation.
> >
> > I would like comments and suggestion about for this widget.
>
> Here a updated patch ready to be comitted on tomorrow (kdelibs breakage)

You say that its special behaviour is that it is first hidden when 
instantiated, until a text is set. In what way is that different from any 
other label? (Perhaps the difference is to do with its effects on the 
layout?) Can you please make its purpose clearer in the description.

-- 
David Jarvie.
KAlarm author and maintainer.
http://www.astrojar.org.uk/kalarm