Review Request: W7 Tab thumbnails in dolphin.

[Andrius da Costa Ribas]

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dolphin/src/dolphinmainwindow.cpp
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    Would it worth using KIO's ThumbCreator instead?


- Andrius da Costa Ribas


On Oct. 3, 2011, 1:25 a.m., Andrius da Costa Ribas wrote:
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> (Updated Oct. 3, 2011, 1:25 a.m.)
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> Review request for KDE Base Apps, KDE Accessibility, kdewin, Patrick Spendrin, and Peter Penz.
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> Description
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> Add Windows 7 tab thumbnails feature to dolphin.
> Mostly based on the example from <http://nicug.blogspot.com/2011/03/windows-7-taskbar-extensions-in-qt-tab.html>.
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> An icon representation is used instead of actual thumbnails ( please agree that those microscopic previews are not useful at all ;] ). Changing an icon when url changes is also easier than checking all the time whether something inside the window has been changed. Using icons is a lot more KDE-ish and therefore more beautiful and user-friendly than the default Windows behavior ;).
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> "win7utils.h" and "win7utils.cpp" are from <https://github.com/xfreebird/blogstuff/tree/master/qt/thumbnailtabs_example1> with few adaptations.
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> Diffs
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>   dolphin/src/CMakeLists.txt 93225c5 
>   dolphin/src/dolphinapplication.h 69d07c3 
>   dolphin/src/dolphinapplication.cpp 0dc9c96 
>   dolphin/src/dolphinmainwindow.h 9fb83bf 
>   dolphin/src/dolphinmainwindow.cpp 6ca6e59 
>   dolphin/src/platform/win7utils.h PRE-CREATION 
>   dolphin/src/platform/win7utils.cpp PRE-CREATION 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/102758/diff/diff
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> Testing
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> Tested using MSVC 2010 32 bit, in a Windows 7 64 bit machine.
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> May need testing:
> - Compiling under mingw-w32 and mingw-w64
> - Using Windows Vista or below to ensure there are no side-efects on a box without this feature.
> - Using Windows 8 (I don't know much about its bugs^H^H^H^Hfeatures ;] )
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> Known problems:
> - There is no way to know if KTabBar got a tab reordered, so the "thumbnails" won't be reordered, but their reference is still correct
> - Undefined behavior when dolphin gets unresponsive [e.g.: because of a defective kioslave], most of the code assume dolphin is okay [e.g.: QPixmap::grabWidget won't work in a frozen window]. 
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> Screenshots
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> Tabs!
>   http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/102758/s/281/
> More Tabs!
>   http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/102758/s/282/
> Too many tabs!
>   http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/102758/s/283/
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> Thanks,
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> Andrius da Costa Ribas
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