KDE4 default shortcut theme

[Ellen Reitmayr]

On Thursday 29 March 2007 20:51, Thomas Zander wrote:
> On Thursday 29 March 2007 20:15, Ellen Reitmayr wrote:
> > > Your example for KWord is a good one; KWord in KOffice2 doesn't have
> > > nearly as much actions on the toolbar as the older KWord did. Most of
> > > the toolbuttons have been moved to one or more dockers.  And this is
> > > something all KOffice apps are doing.
> >
> > OK, that was a question I had for the toolbars section: I think KDE4
> > should much more support dynamic support of the current context of use,
> > e.g. when editing a table, extended table options should appear
> > automatically so the user does not have to go to the menu.
> >
> > i was not sure if this should be done by toolbars or dockers. dockers
> > allow the usage of more interactive widgets. but toolbars better dock
> > into the application
>
> No, toolbars have gotten quite a different role in Qt4; its very weird to
> use toolbars for anything other than buttons etc.
>
> > (at least for small panels). in the toolbars guidelines
> > (http://wiki.openusability.org/guidelines/index.php/Guidelines:Tool_Bar),
> > i wrote people should use dynamic toolbars, that's why i think keyboard
> > access is important. i can change this suggestion to dynamic dockers if
> > that is what koffice supports.
>
> Yes, KOffice does that;
> http://members.home.nl/zander/images/200702-kword-text-shape.png
> and http://members.home.nl/zander/images/20070329-kwordDockers.png (excuse
> the lack of proper icons; oxygen is missing a lot of stuff we need ;)
> The toolbox on the left and the 'Tool Options' on the right are both
> QDockWidgets. They can be moved to all edges and can be detached from the
> parent window. The toolbars at the top of the window can not be detached
> and (by default) you can't have more then one row of them.
> I would strongly suggest you checkout qt-copy from trunk and compile it.
> You can avoid the make install so your installation won't be compromised. 
> Try at least the examples/mainwindow/dockwidget/ one and its many options
> that programmers can set.
> Its makes the point much clearer then I could ever explain in an email what
> the difference is between a toolbar and dockwidget in Qt4.

OK. I'd like to ask Olaf for his opinion - he's the accessibility dude and 
better knows if access to the toolbar should be given. 

Another option we've discussed was including toolbars into the tab order. 
Olaf, what do you think?

/el

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Ellen Reitmayr
KDE Usability Project
usability.kde.org
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