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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] rev 47214: /trunk/ /trunk/epan/: prefs.c

From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 22 Apr 2013 13:25:51 -0700
According to

  http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-5.0/qtwidgets/qabstractscrollarea.html

QAbstractScrollArea::addScrollBarWidget lets you specify the alignment
for scroll bars, so it's at least possible in theory.


On 4/22/13 12:17 PM, Joerg Mayer wrote:
> Hello Gerald,
> 
> sorry to be so late in this.
> 
> I *badly* miss the scroll bar on the left side. Is it possible to get it back?
> At the beginning of the Qt4 port I spent about one day trying to figure out
> how to get a scrollbar preference into the Qt port. The end result was, that
> it isn't trivial (aka not anticipated by Qt4 unless you use right to left text
> as well), so it has to be done manually like konsole does, but that is beyond
> my capabilities of implementing.
> There were rumors that Qt5 might actually add this, but I haven't checked yet
> whether this is acutally the case.
> Only after the scrollbar was gone did I realize what you describe as
> "as recently discussed on -dev" was about the scrollbar reference. I think this
> kind of stuff should be discussed on -users, not -dev.
> 
> Ciao
>         Jörg
> 
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2013 at 06:27:19PM +0000, gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>> http://anonsvn.wireshark.org/viewvc/viewvc.cgi?view=rev&revision=47214
>>
>> User: gerald
>> Date: 2013/01/22 10:27 AM
>>
>> Log:
>>  GTK+:
>>  
>>  Get rid of user-hostile behavior. In the layout preferences pane 2 & 3
>>  radio buttons overrode the user's selection if a duplicate item was
>>  selected. Now we assume that the user knows what he or she is doing and
>>  steal duplicate selections from the other panes.
>>  
>>  Qt:
>>  
>>  Match the new GTK+ behavior in the layout preferences. Add padding
>>  around the layout images. Add toolbar style preferences to the
>>  Appearance pane (instead of the layout pane).
>>  
>>  All:
>>  
>>  Remove the selection mode and scrollbar placement prefs and mark them
>>  obsolete as recently discussed on -dev.
>>  
>>  Adjust the layout images yet again after more Awful Monitor Testing.
>>
>> Directory: /trunk/epan/
>>   Changes    Path          Action
>>   +3 -17     prefs.c       Modified
>>   +0 -3      prefs.h       Modified
>>
>> Directory: /trunk/ui/gtk/
>>   Changes    Path                      Action
>>   +0 -32     gui_utils.c               Modified
>>   +0 -4      gui_utils.h               Modified
>>   +2742 -2751 layouts.h                 Modified
>>   +6 -2      main.c                    Modified
>>   +0 -44     packet_list.c             Modified
>>   +0 -8      packet_list.h             Modified
>>   +1 -33     packet_panes.c            Modified
>>   +1 -8      packet_panes.h            Modified
>>   +1 -1      packet_win.c              Modified
>>
>>
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