[Okular-devel] Vertical layout

[Albert Astals Cid]

El Dissabte, 16 de març de 2013, a les 13:34:06, Kees Jongenburger va 
escriure:
> Hi,

Hi

> 
> I have been a happy okular user for many years. I am mostly using it
> to read datasheets.  Many things about okular are great. I like the
> different selection modes and specially the table selection one.
> Sometimes I would wish it would use a tabbed interface but when I
> really need tabs I use konqueror to open the datasheets in different
> tabs. I searched yesterday and found there are also some other
> solutions for this.
> 
> The thing I have been missing most it to allow okular to make better
> use of the screen width when showing the navigation window. I like to
> have okular next to my editor or on a separate rotated screen. In such
> situations the layout of the navigation panel would better be moved
> above or bellow the content window. to give an example [1] shows a
> typical sessions I have. On the left I have my editor and on the right
> I have okular running. I will often hide and show the navigation panel
> to be able to read the text.
> 
> Yesterday I downloaded the okular sources and tried to modify the
> layout to move the navigation panel to the top. This was easier than I
> tough and I managed to move the navigation to the top by only
> modifying a few properties in the source[2] code the result can be
> seen here[3]. I can now make better use of the screen estate. I have
> not extensively searched the archives but would like to know if there
> is a chance this layout could be added to okular?. If so I can clean
> it up and spend a few more hours on it making it configurable and
> removing hacks.

To be honest i am not much convincing in adding a checkbox for this in the 
configuration dialog, i wouldn't be against you being able to "drag" the bar 
from the left to the top/right/bottom though.

What do others think?

Cheers,
  Albert

> 
> With kind regards
> 
> [1] http://www.keesj.dds.nl/okular/okular_original_layout.png
> [2] http://www.keesj.dds.nl/okular/hack_vertical_layout.patch
> [3] http://www.keesj.dds.nl/okular/okular_vertical_layout.png
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