[Konsole-devel] Task Bar Location

[Barry Rountree]

On Tuesday 13 July 2004 01:21 am, Stephan Binner wrote:
> On Tuesday 13 July 2004 06:56, Kurt V. Hindenburg wrote:
> > I wonder if QT4 allows tabs on the sides?
>
> The preview doesn't.

Two really ugly [non]solutions:

1.  Put the tool bars back in.  If you want the task bar on the top or bottom, 
you get a tab bar.  If you want it on the left or right, you get a tool bar.  
It's completely transparent to the user up until the time that tool bars and 
tab bars are found not to be quite identical.  Also lots of functionality 
duplication, maintenance headaches, probably high in carbs, too.  Bleah.

2.  Put the tool bars back in but as an index into groups of sessions -- each 
tool bar entry gets its own tab bar, and each tab bar can have multiple 
sessions as always.  Of course, I'd use it with just one session per tab bar.  
In short, this would be introducing a feature nobody (not even me) wants so 
that somebody (me) can misuse it to accomplish something else.  NOW how much 
would you pay???  :^P

So I start coding the latter -- just as an intellectual exercise, mind you -- 
and I fire up konqueror head on over to the cvs website.  I start generating 
lots of tabs so I can view several files at once and it hits me...  I can't 
read the filenames in the tabs.  Of course, I could if the tabs were on the 
left or right...

Thus, it's a tabwidget problem, not a konsole problem.  Hence, I'm off to 
tabwidgetland.  Watch for postcards.

Barry 

>
> Bye,
>    Steve
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