Patch for KDirOperator: make columns in detailled view resizable

[Anders Lund]

On Thursday 04 October 2007, Peter Penz wrote:
> Hi Anders,
>
> > On Thursday 04 October 2007, Peter Penz wrote:
> > > Your patch did no automatic resizing when opening in the means of that
> >
> > the
> >
> > > name column gets as much width as possible. The workaround with
> > > model()->rows() > 0 did also not work when opening the file-dialog the
> > > second time, as the resizing is done too early then... (so the size of
> >
> > the
> >
> > > columns differed dependent whether the model is in the cache or not)
> >
> > Is the file dialogs kept (as opposite to deleted) between uses??
>
> No, the file-dialog is deleted. Without having debugged this in detail: I
> assume that the KDirLister (used by KDirModel) still has the items in its
> global cache, which leads to having model()->rows() > 0 already one or two
> resize events earlier. In these earlier resize events the width of the
> viewport does not have the final width yet -> any calculation which tries
> to stretch a column based on the available viewport width will fail as we
> ignore further updates because model()->rows() > 0 is true now...
>
> With your original patch the differences between opening the file-dialog
> the first and second time are very subtle, as the autoresizing is used
> which ignores the viewport width (still there might be differences if an
> incremental loading is done where a very long file name is loaded later).
>
> Before this gets an "academic discussion": I'd say lets get in your
> original patch on Friday. If I have time to find a solution to differ
> between a user resized column resizing and an internal resizing in a clean
> manner, then we don't have the problem above anymore as we don't rely on
> the model()->rows() > 0 workaround anymore.

I think for now that would be the best :)

One thing that could improve it would be to manually adjust the size of the 
name column, to make the view appear as desired. I can try to provide a patch 
doing that during the day.


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Anders

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