Fwd: kdebase/kate/app

[Dominik Haumann]

On Saturday 23 April 2005 16:57, Matt Rogers wrote:
> On Saturday 23 April 2005 09:41 am, Christoph Cullmann wrote:
> > On Saturday 23 April 2005 16:35, Roland Krause wrote:
> > > I agree with Jens, essentially anything that is opened from a toolbar
> > > on the right side of the "main document" can be done overlapping
> > > because the text density off the overlapped side of the document is
> > > less.
> >
> > in that cases non-overlap would not harm, too, as nothing would be
> > rewrapped what would be bad, and we could add some auto-hide like in
> > overlap, to non-overlap, too
> >
> > > More importantly - this feature gives you the option - removing the
> > > option kills the feature.
> >
> > ?
> >
> > 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
>
> yea, and the problem with kdocksplitter is that instead of subclassing
> qsplitter, they just made their own. KDockSplitter is the class that
> needs the most work, by far.

Even more: KDockSplitter is not sufficient. It does not implement what we 
actually need from a splitter. In short: KDockSplitter must die, no way 
around. Even copy QSplitter code + tweaking would be far better.

-- 
Dominik
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