KDE/kdevplatform/plugins/quickopen

[Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen]

On Thursday 19 March 2009 15:20:47 David Nolden wrote:
> Am Donnerstag 19 März 2009 14:39:38 schrieb Andreas Pakulat:
> > You'd have the same problem if you'd use the form that we have now, apply
> > it onto a QWidget and put it into a QDialog with a layout. The reason it
> > worked with QDialog is that when you resize it inside designer a resize()
> > call is added to the generated code. So every time someone would resize
> > the dialog in designer and save that we'd have a different size on next
> > start, how good is that?
>
> Ah yeah exactly, the size was determined by the designer. I don't see
> what's wrong with that approach.
>
> > Oh and btw, 800x400 is _not_ a reasonable size, it spans the whole screen
> > on small laptops or monitors. Something like 550x350 seems a lot more
> > reasonable.
>
> Well it is a modal dialog, and when the space is used in a useful way, then
> that makes the size reasonable. And since the quickopen list can contain
> very long file-paths, or even whole function signatures, the largest
> possible size that keeps the dialog usable for everyone and does not
> introduce too much whitespace is reasonable.
>
> Since you even the smallest netbook has a screen resolution of at least
> 800x480, something like 760x400 would be a reasonable size.
>
> Greetings, David

  This seems as good a time as any for me to bring up the idea of making this 
dialogue a not-dialogue, but rather a search field, sitting in the top-right 
corner of the window (in the style of so many other search/filter fields). 
Other than it being more difficult to implement than popping up a dialogue on 
a keypress, is there any reason not to do this that i am not aware of? :)

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