New document switching mode (2)

[falk.brettschneider at gmx.de]

> Hi, folks!
> 
> I have finished the implementation of the switching mode that allows 
> ordering the windows by the time they were last activated. It is either 
> possible to switch by opening order (the current default) or by last
> viewed 
> sort order. 
last viewed should be default, shouldn't it?

>A user interface is available in the user interface setup.
> 
> This patch does not work together with original kdelibs v. 3.1, kate part 
> and IDEAl mode.
Who needs IDEAl mode! ;-)

> The kdelibs-cvs contains a minor fix that fixes a kate 
> problem.
Often hearing about Kate problems that can only be solved with an upgrade to
the next KDE version, we should consider to set QEditor as default because
we have control about it and we might declare it as stable and tested with a
certain appropriate KDevelop release.

> 
> One QextMdi problem that drove me nuts but I could not fix it was that
> after 
> opening the project with windows in maximized childframe mode the children
> 
> are not maximized.
> However they get immediately maximized when clicking 
> into one ore selecting by switching to next/prev. window. It seems that
> the 
> windows are created when no TopLevel is available. Falk, maybe you could 
> have a look for this. Otherwise I would rate it as cosmetic ;)
This problem is a event race condition. I fixed this already in good old
KDevelop-2 with a workaround. We just have to port it over...

> 
> What else is interesing for this patch? The accelerator for switching must
> 
> have a modifier key like shift, ctrl, alt, because a window is marked as 
> activated when this modifier is released after switching to a new view. 
> Thus something like F6, shift-F6 does not work. The reason is that we
> might 
> want to skip some views when switching to the next one so that we can 
> arrange the interesting views only one keystroke apart. I got rid of a lot
> 
> of "unnecessary" global accelerators and assigned the switching to
> ctrl-tab 
> shift-ctrl-tab.
What are the default accels now?

> 
> Another thing that is not supported is the assignment of fixed
> accelerators 
> to views like Alt-1, Alt-2.
We await your next patch! ;)
> 
> Have fun,
> Jens
> 
> PS: Sorry Falk, but I fear that I have completely messed up your Qt-only 
> compilation mode of the qextmdi-library.
*sigh* ;)

Ciao
F at lk

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