On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, John Levon wrote: > On Tue, Feb 11, 2003 at 11:59:28AM +0100, Lars Gullik Bj?nnes wrote: [...] > > | I have never been able to use that interface, and it buys us precisely > > | nothing, and costs a lot.
Poor John, failed at Emacs but rules with vi. When are you vi guys going to get your acts together and put a vi-style command interface or are you quietly admitting defeat here also. :P > > Gets rid of the popup/dialog clutter. > > By replacing it with some clutter on the buffer instead, which : > > 1) is non-standard > 2) cannot use the frontend's architecture > 3) requires more code > > I don't know about you, but I do not fancy coding all the stuff like tab > navigation etc. by hand. Can't Qt create a "dialog" as part of a canvas? That is, can't you just put everything on a scrolling-canvas instead of a separate popup dialog box? (which all the Qt/KDE apps I remember using seem to always want to make modal) Then the only difference is the stuff that is covered up or blocked by silly dialogs -- in fact it seems that since Qt can float toolbars the same could effectively be done with dialogs -- the user can choose to pull them out of the workarea and decorate the rest of their screen with them if they want to (or vice versa). Allan. (ARRae)
