Bug 114679 - tab config lost and config window has too-large labels
Summary: tab config lost and config window has too-large labels
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: konversation
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: Compiled Sources FreeBSD
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Eike Hein
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Reported: 2005-10-19 13:21 UTC by groot
Modified: 2006-02-10 20:08 UTC (History)
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Description groot 2005-10-19 13:21:51 UTC
Version:           0.19 #3031 (using KDE Devel)
Installed from:    Compiled sources
Compiler:          gcc 3.4 
OS:                FreeBSD

I just compiled and installed konversation from the latest SVN checkout (18-10 late in the evening) against a KDE 3.5 SVN system. Previous version was 0.17, I think. On startup, the previous tab setting (tabs at the bottom) was lost, and tabs appeared at the top of the window. I'm not sure if this is a change in the default behavior or if the setting is actually lost. My konversationrc now only contains three lines that appear related to tabs:

CloseButtonsOnTabs=false
ShowTabBarCloseButton=true
BlinkingTabs=true

And none of them mention the position. Anyway, this is a minor irritation. It got worse when I had to deal with the configuration dialog. There's a screenshot at http://www.englishbreakfastnetwork.org/tmp/snapshot421.png showing the problem. The default Janus widget (I'm assuming that's being used) with small icons and text beside it yields a long line of small icons each with a non-descriptive text beside it because the column is too narrow to contain the full description. My screen is 1280x1024, though I have slightly larger-than-normal default fonts configured.

The upshot of having no visible _text_ explaining what the configuration tabs do is (for people who do not immediately recognize all the icons) that you have to visit all the tabs (or at least guess that tab bar configuration is somewhere in the group labeled 'behavior') to find the right one.

If either the group names (Behavior, Notification) were removed _or_ the text places below the icons by default, then the list of icons would be much more useful.
Comment 1 Eike Hein 2005-10-19 16:12:40 UTC
We're currently in the process of rebuilding the configuration backend (kconfig -> kconfigxt), which is why there is a number of bugs with loading the old configuration values.

The config work also accounts for the config dialog trouble. We're actually not using a Janus widget but a treeview, however, it's not being generated properly at the moment. Usually, the icons would be smaller, and the respective pages indented below the group nodes.
Comment 2 Eike Hein 2006-02-10 20:08:51 UTC
*** Bug has been marked as fixed ***.