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Multi layered tabs!!
by Benjamin Meyer on Monday 21/Apr/2003, @23:49

Taking a look at the screenshots I see multi layered tabs, oh no! Someone should tell them about kjanuswidget!

-Benjamin Meyer

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Re: Multi layered tabs!!
by Eric Laffoon on Tuesday 22/Apr/2003, @01:52

Okay I'll bite. It's not on freshmeat.net or apps.kde.com. Where must one look? fictitiouswidgets.org? ;-)

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Re: Multi layered tabs!!
by Richard Moore on Tuesday 22/Apr/2003, @02:48

Take a look at:
http://developer.kde.org/documentation/library/cvs-api/classref/kdeui/KJanusWidget.html

Rich.

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Re: Multi layered tabs!!
by Andras Mantia on Tuesday 22/Apr/2003, @03:15

As I understood KJanusWidget is designed for configuration dialogs (I heard about it, but never used in code). On which screenshot you saw that the KJanusWidget would be useful?

Andras

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Re: Multi layered tabs!!
by Richard Moore on Tuesday 22/Apr/2003, @03:35

I think he's probably referring to the action configurations dialog which is a bit of a usability nightmare I'm afraid. I'm not 100% certain how KJanusWidget would help here though.

Rich.
ps. You've probably use KJanusDialog alrady via KDialogBase.

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Re: Multi layered tabs!!
by Eric Laffoon on Tuesday 22/Apr/2003, @06:10

Hi Rich!
The actions dialog *was* a bit of a usability nightmare. Have you seen the one in CVS? It's been totally reworked for just that reason. It feels like coming out of a straightjacket on meds to a nice spring day. ;-)

Until you pointed it out I did not realize KJanusWidget was in the offical KDE. To me this looks like a perfect building block for some new Kommander widgets. BTW I thought he was referring to the file tabs but we do have the pop up file listbox.

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Re: Multi layered tabs!!
by Eric Laffoon on Tuesday 22/Apr/2003, @06:32

I almost forgot... here, have a screenshot.

snapshot67x.png
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Re: Multi layered tabs!!
by Richard Moore on Tuesday 22/Apr/2003, @09:29

That's much better!

Rich.

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Re: Multi layered tabs!!
by Ravi on Tuesday 22/Apr/2003, @08:06

Here's an example of an entire application based around KJanusWidget: ~ravi/cvs.png.

You can find it in kdenonbeta/frontman. I was surprised when I actually learned that KControl does not use KJanusWidget. It could use some developer attention, as its internals have been significantly modified in the last 3 months.

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