Looking for Advisory on ActivityBar Size Policy

David Narvaez david.narvaez at computer.org
Wed Nov 16 06:00:33 UTC 2011


Hi all,

My first disclaimer is that I'm not a UI developer at all, so I'm
pretty lost here. I'm trying to address bug 225078, trying to fix the
situation described in comment 7. The problem is I'm not clear on what
is the expected behavior, so this is what I think should happen
(assuming horizontal layout):

- You add the ActivityBar, it should take a reasonable* size in the panel
- You start switching among activities, but the activity bar should not expand
- You stop activities, then the other tabs should fill up the space,
the bar itself remains the same size
- You start new activities, then the tabs are added and accommodated,
if there are just too many, then he little arrows appear at right

* For some definition of reasonable which is unknown to me

I think that's all possible, except for determining a reasonable size,
am I wrong? Also, is that the intended behavior? Or is it actually
working as expected as it is now? If the above description makes
sense, what's the correct QSizePolicy combination between tab
bars,layouts an applets to get it working that way?

Thanks in advance.

David E. Narváez

[0] https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=225078


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