[Okular-devel] Vertical layout

[Tomas Poledny]

Hi
I agree with you Albert. "Drag" bar is better.




2013/3/16 Albert Astals Cid <aacid at kde.org>

> 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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