[Kde-pim] DistributionList Editor too large

[Ingo Klöcker]

On Tuesday 11 March 2008, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Monday 10 March 2008, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> > On Monday 10 March 2008, Tobias Koenig wrote:
> > > Hej,
> > >
> > > I got the third bug report now, where user complains that the
> > > distribution list editor in KAddressBook in the enterprise branch
> > > takes too much space...
> > > Could anyone of the enterprise developer come up with a solution
> > > for it?
> > > Bug #151961
> >
> > Yeah. I really wonder why it was moved from below the list of
> > contacts to left of the list of contacts. The editor does take very
> > little space vertically but a lot of space horizontally with loads
> > of unused space below it.
>
> FWIW,
>
>   kwriteconfig --file $KDEHOME/share/config/kaddressbookrc \
>   --group MainWindow --key ContactListAboveExtensions true
>
> does not help (read: makes no difference). The distribution list
> editor is still shown left of the contact list. I had a quick look at
> the code. This code is even more twisted than KMail's mainwindow GUI
> code. :-/

  kwriteconfig --file $KDEHOME/share/config/kaddressbookrc \
  --group MainWindow --key ContactListAboveExtensions true

does help if one compiles the latest version before complaining. ;-)

But it's not really a nice solution because this is equivalent to all 
those ugly Windows registry hacks or those similarly ugly hidden 
configuration options in Mozilla/Firefox/Thunderbird. :-(


Regards,
Ingo
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