Review Request 127679: Change .ui files that use KDialog as the dialog class to QDialog

Mitch Frazier mitch at comwestcr.com
Wed Apr 27 21:05:58 UTC 2016



> On April 26, 2016, 8:06 p.m., Christian David wrote:
> > What is the differece to review request #127680?
> 
> Mitch Frazier wrote:
>     Oops, looks like I added the wrong diff onto #127680 (the same one as here).
> 
> Mitch Frazier wrote:
>     Confusion here due to the patch problem on #127680.  On there, Christian said "KDialog is only deprecated in frameworks, on KDE4 we should keep KDialog, that is why I asked against which branch is this patch."
>     
>     My response was (edited):
>     
>     This patch only changes KDialog to QDialog in the Qt Designer .ui files, the dialogs themselves continue to be KDialog.  The problem is that KDialog does not play well with Qt Designer and so if you open a KDialog .ui file in Qt Designer, it's all messed up and not very editable.
>     
>     One of the things that I noticed was that most of the dialogs in KMyMoney are defined as QDialog and have OK and Cancel buttons specifically added to them, perhaps because using KDialog causes problems with Qt Designer.

To see the problem, open kfindtransactiondlg.ui before and after changing the dialog class to QDialog (from KDialog).


- Mitch


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On April 22, 2016, 3 p.m., Mitch Frazier wrote:
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> (Updated April 22, 2016, 3 p.m.)
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> 
> Review request for KMymoney.
> 
> 
> Repository: kmymoney
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> 
> Description
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> 
> KDialog does not work well with Qt Designer.
> 
> Changing the widget class from KDialog to QDialog is generally
> all that's required.  Even though changing from KDialog to
> QDialog does remove the OK and Cancel buttons in Designer,
> these are added automatically because the dialog class itself
> is still KDialog and it by default adds these buttons.
> 
> One of the dialogs did require the adding of a setButtons() call
> to the constructor to place additional buttons on the dialog
> that were previously specified in the .ui file.
> 
> Before and after screenshots show what the kfindtransactiondlgdecl.ui
> file looks like in Qt Designer before with KDialog and after with QDialog.
> 
> Note that one of the dialogs, ksplittransactiondlgdecl.ui appears to
> be unused and can probably be deleted, although I did not test that.
> 
> 
> Diffs
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> 
>   kmymoney/dialogs/kcurrencycalculatordecl.ui 0bcfd40 
>   kmymoney/dialogs/kcurrencyeditdlgdecl.ui 1527455 
>   kmymoney/dialogs/kfindtransactiondlg.cpp 7603007 
>   kmymoney/dialogs/kfindtransactiondlgdecl.ui 44fa861 
>   kmymoney/dialogs/kmymoneypricedlgdecl.ui a484504 
>   kmymoney/dialogs/ksortoptiondlg.ui e7e28e5 
>   kmymoney/dialogs/ksplitcorrectiondlg.ui fb6d337 
>   kmymoney/dialogs/ksplittransactiondlgdecl.ui 6b1c706 
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> Diff: https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/127679/diff/
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> 
> Testing
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> 
> Tested the affected dialogs for correct look and function.
> 
> 
> File Attachments
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> Before KDialog
>   https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2016/04/17/84cb3eaf-fd0d-44c8-80a3-70fe3d6ba2b3__before-kdialog.png
> After QDialog
>   https://git.reviewboard.kde.org/media/uploaded/files/2016/04/17/eb4e6c79-c0d0-4d9b-8354-8e82f692cb90__after-qdialog.png
> 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mitch Frazier
> 
>

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