KTabBar - suggestion for 4.1

[Robert Knight]

> That is up to the konsole developer. Bug him (actually you just need to 
> vote for the bug report that was opened because of this). The framework 
> still supports it.

Someone recently offered to write a patch for this and I have said that
I will accept it.

I have still yet to hear a good reason for in in the terminal other than
old habits die hard but it seems to affect enough people that I will
make a concession on the proviso that it can be hidden.

Regards,
Robert.

On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 20:40 +0300, Andras Mantia wrote:
> On Monday 14 April 2008, Stephen Kelly wrote:
> > I'd far prefer the close button to appear on hover over the icon.
> 
> Well, this was removed a long time ago, in the sense that there was no 
> GUI option e.g to Konqueror to provide close on hover because of 
> usability issues. Actually I'm fine with this behavior. :)
> The real problem is that showing the close button where it is now is a 
> hack. QToolBar does not provide the coordinates for the icon shown 
> there, so that is found out more or less by trial and error. And if a 
> style decides to put that icon somewhere else, it can all go wrong.
> 
> I have big fears that putting a separate close button near the text will 
> face similar problems.
> 
> > Also, as it's not in your mockup, I'd also like to see a new tab
> > button remaining. I can't use konsole without it :(.
> 
> That is up to the konsole developer. Bug him (actually you just need to 
> vote for the bug report that was opened because of this). The framework 
> still supports it.
> 
> Andras
>