Re: [Rosegarden-devel] maybe what we need...

[Vladimir S. <vla...@vl...>]

On Wednesday 16 August 2006 12:00, Chris Cannam wrote:
> ... is a widget that looks a bit like this.  That is, an expanding and
> collapsing group box.  Collapse it and you just get a straight line
> overlaid with the [+] box and the title text.  And of course it remembers
> its last state.

Don't get me wrong. I'm not suggesting anything here. But I already have my 
favorite kde widget for this kind of jobs. Not that my vote counts, but...

Remember amarok's Context/Collection/Playlist/Files view selector. When it's 
rolled left it takes only few pixels, it's always easy accessible and can 
have nice descriptive icons. No keyboard shortcuts for making it dissappear 
(it can always be done with mouse only) and, the most important part, no need 
to hit 16 square pixel region.

I've always found that framed minuses and pluses to be too small to be useful.

Thanks for listening... :) I'm gone earning some money now...

Vlada

> If you stacked several of these up, you'd get something like a QToolBox but
> with the vital difference that more than one box could be expanded at once.
> (I don't think that's possible with QToolBox, anyway?)  Presumably, most of
> us would pick two or three common favourites, expand those, and leave the
> rest.  And then the whole stack would go in a single vertically scrollable
> QScrollArea, with scrollbar "when needed".  It would look clearer than the
> rather vague QToolBox, as well.
>
> Comments and better ideas?  Anyone volunteer to implement it?  I could do
> it, but not today.
>
>
> Chris