on the tabbar widget

[Marco Martin]

On Friday 01 August 2008, Celeste Lyn Paul wrote:
> On Friday 01 August 2008 14:56:14 Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > On Friday 01 August 2008, Celeste Lyn Paul wrote:
> > > I'm jumping in to the conversation late, but can someone post a
> > > screenshot of tabbar?  I noticed the screenshot in the simple frame
> > > review request had a dialog called "tabbbar test" with a series of
> > > buttons called tabs.  What is this for exactly?
> >
> > same thing a tabwidget is used for in application gui's, but usable on
> > the canvas (so it can manage not only QWidgets, but also
> > QGraphicsWidgets). that latter detail is why we have to make one
> > ourselves in the first place =/
>
> Hmm.. well here's the thing..  the example in "tabbar test" is Button
> navigation, not Tabbed navigation.  There is a visual requirement for the
> tab affordance to be connected to the container in order for it to be
> perceived as a "tab".  What is in the screenshot is still navigation, but a
> different model than "tabs".
>
> That's cool if you want to use button navigation to to replace tab
> navigation, but you shouldn't really call them tabs because they aren't.

they are qtabbars so tecnically thay are..
i didn't tought about this problem. thay was designed like that mostly for the 
look.
i can try to draw a frame around it but i'm not sure if it will be possible to 
make it not look too visually heavy

Cheers,
Marco Martin

> (just my 0.02)