KToggleAction in menus

[Matthew Woehlke]

David Faure wrote:
> We all agreed, back then, that for showing/hiding statusbars/toolbars, not
> using setCheckedState() was the best solution (checkbox, no changing text).
> 
> However let's take another example: the standard full-screen action (e.g. in konqueror).
> It changes its text to "Exit Full Screen Mode", which is nice and clear (no ambiguity
> as to whether this is about action or state -- definitely action). The icon changes, too.
> But then the checkbox is useless. Ideally, KToggleAction would hide the checkbox 
> when setCheckedState is used -- since we all agree that having both is broken
> (redundant and possibly confusing).
> 
> I don't see how to implement that, however. setCheckable(false) would break the usage
> of the action in toolbars - we need the action to have two states... we just don't
> want the checkmark for that action in menus. Any ideas?

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