Behavior change in KPageDialog/KPageWidgetItem

[Jos Poortvliet]

On 10/1/07, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de> wrote:
> On 01.10.07 08:21:04, Adam Treat wrote:
> > 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
>
> IMHO thats a good idea, after all almost all katepart-using apps use the
> "Configure Editor" item in the Settings menu. So Kate having "Configure
> Editor" and "Configure Kate" would keep consistency even.

+1
this sounds very sensible.

> Andreas
>
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