xmlgui doesn't honor toolbar position

[Albert Astals Cid]

A Diumenge 05 Juliol 2009 10:13:35, Albert Astals Cid va escriure:
> A Dissabte 04 Juliol 2009 18:41:27, David Faure va escriure:
> > On Monday 29 June 2009, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> > > A Dilluns, 29 de juny de 2009, David Faure va escriure:
> > > > On Sunday 10 June 2007, Christoph Pfister wrote:
> > > > > Hi,
> > > > >
> > > > > Toolbars in the .ui file may have the "position" attribute
> > > > > specifying the area where they are placed by default. However it's
> > > > > currently ignored (attached is a small testcase showing the
> > > > > problem) ...
> > > > >
> > > > > Can anybody shed light on this? Thanks in advance!
> > > >
> > > > Since I'm looking at ktoolbar settings currently I finally had a look
> > > > at this, but it seems to be fixed by now. Works for me.
> > >
> > > There is a problem though. Changing the position only works if you
> > > don't have a .kde/share/config/appnameuirc file, if you have it
> > > modifying the position of the toolbar in your rc file won't do
> > > anything.
> >
> > Right, that's due to the all-in-one QMainWindow::saveState (saved into
> > the State key in the config file). It cannot have the logic like "only
> > save if different from the app default" (since it's in Qt and doesn't
> > know the app defaults). I don't have a solution for this.
> >
> :-/
> :
> > We have to use
> > QMainWindow::saveState since QToolBar does not have a public API in Qt4
> > for positioning toolbars in a specific order and offset... Well IIRC
> > ereslibre pushed forward the idea that offsets are not useful though (and
> > made a Qt patch that prevents moving toolbars to the right with a fixed
> > offset, only allowing reordering; makes sense to me).
>
> Makes sense to me too, but how does that fix the problem of giving more
> power to the xmlgui file than to the saveState info?
>
> > But I don't know what's the
> > current status on that patch (i.e. the opinion of QtSw about it).
>
> I'll manually ping him when he wakes up but i don't have a good feeling
> about it giving his been a bit away from KDE coding lately.

He says he's waiting for the merge request answer on gitorious from the 
trolls.

Albert