Main Toolbar/Toolbar in QToolBar

[Àlex Fiestas]

On Wednesday 14 August 2013 13:58:44 you wrote:
> > , of course there are exceptions but we
> > can't move all these logic to Qt.
> 
> These aren't exceptions.
> 
> The definition of "Main Toolbar" was that it's the first mainwindow toolbar.
> 
> You can't call other-than-first exceptions, they are very valid toolbars,
> just not "main" :) Your code with a cast is wrong. Only one mainwindow
> toolbar is the main toolbar.
> 
> The reason is that one might want large icons and text-under-icons to make
> the main toolbar very intuitive, but still if the app has 5 more toolbars,
> there's no room for such settings on the other toolbars, so they would be
> "small icons only". A bit of an "easy mode" vs "advanced mode" split, in a
> way.
> > Applications needing this, will continue using XML-GUI or implement the
> > logic by hand, I don't think there is something we can add to  Qt to make
> > this easier.
> 
> The logic can't be in QToolBar itself, indeed. Which leaves the following
> options:
> * style hints as you suggested
> * magic in kstyle (but not just a cast...)
> * XMLGUI itself could inject the settings into the toolbars, possibly.
> It already does to a large extent, maybe just not the defaults or something
> (didn't read that code in many years).

Yeah... apparently my assumption was wrong.

So what we need is instead is a way of "flagging/marking" a QToolBar as a 
"Main Toolbar" so our Style can do its magic, no?

Any idea of how to do this?