kcmodule and kcmoduleproxy

[Matthias Kretz]

On Friday 05 December 2008 14:06:46 Celeste Lyn Paul wrote:
> > As far as I understood the prob is here that e.g. Konqi's settings-dialog
> > does resize what is, without question, evil as well and needs to be
> > fixed.

Keep in mind that with lazy loading, if you want to never resize 
automatically, you have to use scrollbars.

> > I would suggest, and that's how I did understood Matthias, that we should
> > look at e.g. Konqi's settings-dialog how to fix it while preserving the
> > KDE3 logic of delaying loading the kcmodule's as long as possible (what
> > the patch is about).

Yes, my suggestion is to make a best guess at the needed size and use that as 
initial (or enforced minimum) size for the dialog from the Konqueror/Kontact 
code. Then the chances that a KCM doesn't fit and needs a resize/scrollbars is 
much reduced.

> > My suggestion here was to follow what we did with systemsettings. In the
> > case of Konqi's settings-dialog we could try to identify those kcmodules
> > which do result in such a resize and either (short term solution) put
> > them into a QScrollArea or (long term solution) make them more friendly
> > to also work fine on e.g. a eeePC.
> >
> > Would that be better?
>
> Wouldn't using a scrollbar be a good idea as a fallback regardless if it
> fits in 800x600?  When you have 800x600 on a 4.25 inch/10.8 cm screen, 9pt
> font is pretty damn small. I've heard a lot of netbook users complain about
> some dialogs (not sure if they were kcm or other) not fitting because they
> increase their default font size, and some accessibility themes increase
> font size, which results in more use of vertical UI.

BTW, back in January 2005 KCModuleProxy used a QScrollView to embed KCMs. I 
don't remember the details why Frans removed them again: you can try your luck 
with reading the svn logs and mailinglists from that time...

FWIW, my opinion about resizing vs. scrollbars is that as long as the resized 
dialog fits onto the screen it should resize. If the dialog would get bigger 
than the screen than it should instead use scrollbars. Rationale: if I'd get a 
dialog with scrollbars I'd resize it manually to make the scrollbars go away 
(as long as it fits on my screen). As the computer can do the resizing better 
and faster than I can ...

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