Version: (using KDE KDE 3.4.3) Installed from: Ubuntu Packages What about creating a QTabWidget and having "console", "playlist", and "video" in three different tabs? Kaffeine does that and it works very well for me.
What does that gain switching from the toolbar buttons now, to having a TabWidget? It does loose the space needed to show the tab-labels and there is no way to see both playlist and video. Plus playlist is dockable now, so it can be used for the plugin, when being tiny, as well.
>What does that gain? Only that the logical structure of the program is more understandable. If you partition your functionalities in three via tabs, then it is immediately clear that your program can have 3 different layouts. Also, in each layout you show only those toolbar buttons that make sense in that layout. Sometimes you remove much clutter this way (though it may not be the case for KMplayer). Given that the space for the tabbar does not seem to be an issue (you have fullscreen mode), if you value understandability you might give it a try. It's a matter of taste I suppose. Cheers
Yes and I find it ugly, looks almost like a wizard kind of dialog. I know that WMP has it too, but that one has the tabs vertical, which makes much more sense because there are only a few tabs and they fill the space better than horizontal ones. Anyhow, KMPlayer meant to be a tiny click&play player for use next to kaffeine/amarok as simple tool and as plugin for konqueror. Putting the playlist in a tab would promise more than it offers, only a single column of a treeview looks pretty boring IMO. And I would miss the tree following SMIL animations.
This project is unfortunately no longer maintained. If a new maintainer wants to step up and take care, the project is archived here: https://invent.kde.org/multimedia/kmplayer You can just clone it in your private namespace on invent.kde.org and if you have started to work on it and fixed/implemented something get it reviewed and the project unarchived. Sorry for the inconveniences.