[KDev4] Improving mainwindow UI

[dukju ahn]

2007/5/26, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de>:
> On 26.05.07 09:55:46, dukju ahn wrote:
> > 1.
> > Current KDev4 mainwindow doesn't allow to hide entire docking
> > window easily -- we should close every 4 tab to remove bottom
> > docwidget. OTW, in Kdev3.4, we could lower dock window group
> > by clicking its tab only once.
> > This is necessary to acquire wide editor window.
>
> Thats not really right, to acquire a wide editor window (whoever needs
> that, we have a policy of 76 character wide lines) you should buy a
> larger monitor and support your countries economy with this ;)

KDevelop aims general purpose IDE. It doesn't aim only KDE community.
Also If we can hide bottom docwidget, we can acquire more _longer_
editor window.

> > But it seems that QMainwindow doesn't support that.
>
> Well, I don't think Alexander will divert from QMainWindow and
> QDockWidgets.

I didn't mean that we should discard QMainWindow. I like it very much.

Anyway it seems that we should wait until alexander starts it.
I don't think I have much time to do that also.
I'm overwhelminged by the complexity of sublime UI..