Query regarding KTp::ContactGridWidget

[George Kiagiadakis]

On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 5:08 PM, Amandeep Singh <aman.dedman at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am a student working on integrating krfb (KDE Remote Desktop Sharing
> application) with KDE Telepathy, as part of my project under the Season of
> KDE program.
>
> We plan to show a list of telepathy contacts with desktop sharing capability
> on krfb's main window. For this purpose we were planning to use
> KTp::ContactGridWidget present in
> ktp-common-internals/Widgets/contact-grid-widget.*
>
> However this, as the name suggests, provides a grid of contact Icons. The
> widget internally uses a QListView, and sets its view mode to IconView
> internally, and doesn't currently support changing the view to a ListMode.
>
> I plan to forward the functionality of QListView to the public API of
> ContactGridWidget that allows switching the view mode between ListMode &
> IconMode, if possible. This might lead to making the widget's name confusing
> as it
> might not be exactly a Grid anymore.
>
> So can we add this functionality and rename it to ContactViewWidget or
> something?
> Please make some suggestion regarding this matter.
>
> Thanks,
> Aman

Hi,

Fwiw, it was me that proposed this change to Aman. We both think it
makes sense, but I also wanted an opinion from someone more active in
the team than me. Anyone?

Regards,
George