Re: KNumInput::setLabel and ugly dialogs

["Andreas Hartmetz" <ahartmetz@xxxxxxxxx>]

2008/4/27 Holger Freyther <zecke@xxxxxxxxxxx>:

Hey,

I toyed a bit with KDE4.0 and was a bit upset by setting dialogs like the one
attached to the screenshot. I looked a bit at the code and I lack ideas how
to fix the root cause.

What these dialogs have in common are:
       - One got some kind of a BoxLayout
       - One adds a couple of KNumInput derived classes into the layout
       - One uses KNumInput::setLabel

As I said above I lack ideas how to fix the KNumInputs so that they align
properly. For kcm_keys I ditched the KNumInput::setLabel, created a label
myself, used QLabel::setBuddy and put everything into a QFormLayout.
Specially the last bit is the important one. By using a QFormLayout we make
sure the label and input area are properly aligned.

Is there anything we can do to KNumInput to fix it? Using a layout, using a
QSpacerIterm? Provide a QLabel* KNumInput::label() and then put that into a
QFormLayout ourselves?

As we don't have a general purpose "align my labels/widgets" class the best thing that we have is QFormLayout. That means that setLabel() will almost always break the alignment.
AFAIK Thomas Zander (KOffice) actually did write a class that aligns widgets in
a given layout but AFAIK it is too limited for general use.
Thomas, any news?
 

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