Behavior change in KPageDialog/KPageWidgetItem

[Adam Treat]

On Monday 01 October 2007, Anders Lund wrote:
> On Monday 01 October 2007, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> > On Monday 01 October 2007 12:16:30 Anders Lund wrote:
> > > On Monday 01 October 2007, Sebastian Kügler wrote:
> > > > I had a quick look at kate's config dialogue, and I don't see
> > > > immediately why you think it isn't possible. Put simply, right now
> > > > there's a two level hierarchy, treebranches, treenodes (= pages).
> > > > Only one config page has more than one tab. Making the branches the
> > > > top level items (i.e. those that show up in the iconview on the left)
> > > > and having the branches as tabs makes sense to me.
> > >
> > > I'm not sure I understand this. What I do know is that no widget should
> > > have more tabs than will fit it's natural size, that is, truncating tab
> > > titles or having scroll buttons on tabbars is a definite NO. If that is
> > > required (and that is how i understand your suggestion, two widget with
> > > LOTS of tabs), the tree is MUCH prefferable!!
> >
> > You're referring to konqueror here or to kate? In konqueror's case, the
> > thing getting in the way is the filemanagement / browser settings
> > distinction. Not sure how to solve this in the best possible way.
> > In kate, it looks relatively straightforward from a quick glance.
>
> I refer to Kate's configuration dialog. Kate has two groups of
> configuration widgets, one from katepart and one from kate. Neither group
> can be squeezed into one tabbed widget without the tabbar being too wide to
> fit the widget.

I think the thing to do is stop dividing it up between the two current 
categories.  Is there any real reason that the user of kate needs to know 
that the katepart settings are different from kate the app?  If so, then I'd 
either suggest to provide two different configuration dialogs that would make 
this explicit OR to still do a list, but prepend 'Editor' to the various 
editor pages and 'App' to the various app pages.

Cheers,

Adam