>> Could someone with a Mac check if attached patch is a good solution on a Mac?
>
> Functionally, this works well: LaTeX, etc. runs in the background,
> with the widget being updated with process messages. I'd prefer to
> have the process messages cleared for subsequent attempts to typeset
> rather than simply appended to the end of the previous list, however;
> otherwise the list gets long and it's hard to tell when one run ended
> and the next began. Another solution might be to indicate in the list
> the time that typesetting began, something like this:
>
> 9:58 p.m.
> Process started: pdflatex "filename"
> Process finished: pdflatex "filename"
>
> 10:00 p.m.
> Process started: ...
>
> In terms of Mac aesthetics, drawers seem to be going out of style,
> replaced instead by floating windows. (Perhaps other Mac users would
> care to chime in here.) I think that's what makes most sense not only
> here but also in other cases. In particular:
>
> 1. Document > Outline should not be a drawer but floating window.
>
> 2. Anything that uses a vertical dock should be a floating widget.
> This includes such things as the spellcheck widget and the advanced
> find and replace widget, but *not* the view source widget.
>
> (It probably would make sense to allow floating widgets to dock if
> someone wanted to do that, but the default on Mac should be to have
> them float.)
>
> That goes beyond what you're asking here. Should I file a bug report
> on these other cases so as not to hijack this thread?
>
> Bennett
>
Here a new thread for the Mac ui discussion, someone should care about
Dialog * createGuiProgressView(GuiView & guiview)
{
#ifdef Q_WS_MACX
return new GuiProgressView(guiview, Qt::RightDockWidgetArea,
Qt::Drawer);
#else
return new GuiProgressView(guiview, Qt::BottomDockWidgetArea);
#endif
}
in GuiProgressView.cpp.
Peter
