Fwd: kdebase/kate/app

[Matt Rogers]

On Saturday 23 April 2005 09:53 am, Jens Herden wrote:
> > looking at the kdocksplitter code, the overlap mode isn't that nice to
> > implement at all, as this code is really borked in many places, and
> > qsplitter doesn't allow such stuff in any way
>
> I know nothing about internals of KMDI, but I have a vivid fantasy so
> please forgive me if this is bullshit:
>
> Why do you use a splitter for the overlapping mode? Can't you just us a
> window as in the undocked mode and stick it at the right position?
>

It's because of the way KDockWidgets are implemented. basically, once you 
actually add a dock widget to the main window, everything depends on the 
splitter, so the splitter is a requirement. KMDI uses KDockWidgets, 
therefore, it also relies on the splitter.

Matt

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