Bug 75867

Summary: IDEAl mode full-sized tool view tabs not practical on smaller screens
Product: [Applications] kdevelop Reporter: Bernd Pol <bernd.pol>
Component: UI: IDEAlAssignee: KDevelop Developers <kdevelop-devel>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED    
Severity: normal    
Priority: NOR    
Version: git master   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: unspecified   
OS: Linux   
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Description Bernd Pol 2004-02-22 22:05:03 UTC 
Version:           3.0.90-CVS (using KDE 3.2.90 (CVS >= 20040117), compiled sources)
Compiler:          gcc version 3.3.1 (SuSE Linux)
OS:          Linux (i686) release 2.4.21-99-athlon

It is good to see that full text tool view tabs are back in IDEAl mode. But in the current layout they are far too big for a 1024 x 728 screen. I can make them all visible only if I select a ridiculously fine 8 point Luxi Sans font. And even then not all are fully shown in the left side tab bars, even in full screen mode. (And we have still to account for old-fashioned 800x600 screens around the world!)
We must make this configurable. At least the user should be able to select between full text and icon only modes.
Additionally desirable would be a means to move them around (like the document tabs in konqueror) to unhide or fold them into multiple rows, which however would use up valuable works space on small screens.
Also the text fonts may be made configurable for the tool view tabs.
Comment 1 Jens Dagerbo 2004-02-22 22:47:54 UTC 
It IS configurable, it just hasn't reached the GUI yet.. :)

kdeveloprc:
[UI]
MDIStyle=1 (1 == text, 0 == icons)

I'm sure this is on everyone's todo list.. ;)
Comment 2 Bernd Pol 2004-04-14 17:41:01 UTC 
*** Bug has been marked as fixed ***.