QML widget explorer

Marco Martin notmart at gmail.com
Sun Jan 1 21:10:28 UTC 2012


On Sunday 01 January 2012, Martin Gräßlin wrote:
> On Sunday 01 January 2012 20:51:34 Marco Martin wrote:
> > On Saturday 31 December 2011, Marco Martin wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > > 
> > > After almost a year of stopped development, I think the qml rewrite of
> > > the widget explorer and activity manager are almost ready for merge :D
> > 
> > Annuntio vobis gaudium magnum,
> 
> meh my Latin is not even good enough any more to translate that without
> Wikipedia :-(
> 
> > the qml widget explorer and activity manager are merged, let the bitch
> > fest begin :p
> 
> a little bit of feedback
> * \o/ yeah opening the widget explorer and typing works \o/
> * the bottom of the activity mager looks a little bit crowded. I would say
> margin is missing (see [1]). If I are first in widget explorer
> it looks correct.

uhm, seems the whole window gets behind the panel O.o

> * clicking on "Create Activity" opens the window on the left screen corner.
> If you don't have that I blame Qt and update (I saw 4.8 is in Debian
> experimental)

duh, a thing i forgotten to fix, should be ok now

> * If I am first in Activies with bad bottom and go to widgets the scrollbar
> is missing
> * There should be a margin between widget title and right corner - see [2]
> * Widget name might need a text elide - see [3]
> * Too much empty space in tooltips

there are probably a lot of little layout misbehaviours, that'll take a while 
indeed (and, slightly different behaviours with different fonts, fot sizes, 
etc -> fun ;)

> * Yeah scrolling would be nice :-) Also the missing flickable behavior
> surprised me, though it is clear that it cannot work when there is a drag
> area.

yep, the events are eaten by the drag area, the two things are pretty much 
mutually exclusive :/

> 
> great work :-)
> 
thx ;)


-- 
Marco Martin


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