On Sun, 19 May 2019 08:23:58 -0700 (PDT) "Edward K. Ream" <edream...@gmail.com> wrote:
> This post discusses #1150 > <https://github.com/leo-editor/leo-editor/issues/1150>. Don't > panic. Nothing is settled yet, and I'll consider your comments > seriously. > > Using Qt's Dock widget *might* improve Leo substantially. It would > certainly making integrating Leo and pyzo easier, but that's a > secondary concern. The proposal must stand on its own merits. > > *Background* > > Using a Dock might seem a no-brainer. Qt docks allow users freedom > to position, move and resize *dockable *widgets. Even better, Qt can > automagically save and restore user changes! To layout, not the state of the widget in the dock. > Alas, QDock's require a so-called *central widget*. This > significantly restricts the design choices. Everything must be > placed *around* the central widget: above, below, left or right of it. When I was trying to do this it seems sufficient to just use the left side dock for everything, and have no main widget. That gives you complete freedom of layout and no "more equal than others" widget. Cheers -Terry > Pyzo is a good example of Qt's dock. Please play around with it to > get a feel for how it works. In pyzo, the central widget holds a > tabbed widget containing all the user's files (pyzo editors). > > *The proposal* > > The obvious thing to do would be to put Leo's *entire* main window > into the central widget. This would work, but I think there is a > better way: > > *Remove Leo's Tab Pane from the main window* > > I think this makes sense! The benefits: > > - More freedom to arrange and size components of the Tab Pane. > - Greater width for the tree pane, when the tree appears above the > body pane. > - One less splitter in the main window. > > In addition to the benefits of using a top-level QDockWidget > mentioned above, Leo will need neither the Easter Egg interface nor > the nested splitter machinery. Plugins will simply create dockable > widgets. I am prepared to do the retro-fitting. > > I don't see any major drawbacks. Without *additional* changes, > multiple body panes will work just as before. However, we could > imagine additional body panes placed as *dockable* widgets outside > the main window. This seems like another advantage of the proposal. > > BTW, Leo will likely still support the toggle-split direction > command. Its effect will be simpler. > > *Summary* > > Imo, it makes sense to remove Leo's Log Pane from Leo's main window > when using a top-level QDockWidget. I see no significant drawbacks > to doing so. It will require significant behind-the scenes work, > which will be my responsibility. > > These are early days for this proposal. Please let me know what you > think. > > Edward > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "leo-editor" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to leo-editor+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to leo-editor@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/leo-editor. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/leo-editor/20190519102911.6866190e%40lakeview. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
