KDE/kdevplatform

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 23.04.09 19:42:15, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 23.04.09 16:34:46, Alexander Dymo wrote:
> > SVN commit 958266 by dymo:
> > 
> > Move the editor statusbar into the right corner of tabwidget.
> 
> Does this work for KDE4.2/Qt4.4?
> 
> > For tabless configurations always show the "statusbar", but on the top with filename and line/col positions.
> 
> Hmm, I'm assuming you've guys reached the conclusion thats the best
> place. I'm not sure I like that (will try right away), its completely
> different to any editor that people know, which means especially newbies
> will possibly have a hard time finding the information.
> 
> I'd like to understand the decision for this, so can you (or anybody
> else who's in Ukraine) elaborate a bit why this is better than the
> bottom position? I know about the space-problem, but that doesn't change
> much now, with tabs you only gain something if you don't have the
> breadcrumbs enabled and not many tabs (i.e. there's actually space),
> without tabs you need as much space on top than you'd need at the
> bottom.

Just tried, while it looks ok for the no-tabs gui and with only a few
tabs open, I think it looks horrible with many tabs open when you get
the QTabWidget arrow-buttons. So I'm even more interested in hearing the
reasoning behind this change.

Andreas

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