On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 9:07 AM, Dag Andersen <dand...@get2net.dk> wrote: > Onsdag 27 april 2011 09:31:16 skrev du: >> On 27 April 2011 09:07, Dag Andersen <dand...@get2net.dk> wrote: >> > Hi, I'm wondering a bit about the properties "Can Grow" and "Word Wrap" >> > used for the field item. I don't find the functionality very intuitive >> > so I propose to use a (limitied) SizePolicy property instead of Can >> > Grow., that implements Fixed and Expanding. >> >> Dag, >> Adam has nice screen shots presenting the properties in real use, what >> can help. This would be part of end-user (and API?) documentation too. >> Regarding SizePolicy I believe it's unfortunately exactly opposite: >> it's counter-intuitive in terms of end-user friendliness, even if this >> is informal note: >> - SizePolicy comes not only from developers world (Qt API) and it's >> hard to even translate meaning of the property to some languages >> without using full sentence (think: Polish); >> - SizePolicy comes from QWidget world, there's no reason to harmonize >> reports with QWidgets API, they differ in terms of media type and >> level of abstraction. > Well, it could be named Grow Policy (or someting else...) >> - as for the simplicity, there is no point of having 2-value enum >> Fixed/Expanding instead of boolean value Can Grow, which, by the way >> is OK for someone without QWidget API knowledge (the main user base) > Depends if you want to control horizontal and vertical expansion separately. > I can see that Word Wrap defines which way the field grows. But if expansion > is > limited in some way, word wraping should not affect expansion. > > (Btw, the use of the word wrap property to control expansion was what I found > not intuitive.) >> >> > Also, imo the expansion should be limited to section size. Horizontally >> > this would mean page right edge. >> >> This is very true, TODO.
Agreed >> >> > Vertically I'm not sure, sections seems not to >> > have a fixed height. >> Yes, the point of sections is to be able to grow as required (or atleast have the ability to)....a 'can grow' property for sections makes sense, infact, i _think_ msa has that also. >> Good point anyway with another side point: it would be nice to have >> "Can Grow" property for sections too, true by default. > Hmm, what happens if there is not enough room for the detail section on any > page, like if e.g. page header takes the whole page? Yeah, i thought about that also..i think by chance it limits the size to a page, but its probably undefined. >> >> > I have a half working solution but I'd like a go ahead to put more time >> > into it. >> >> OK please show it. Yes, show us what youve done! > > -- > Mvh. > Dag Andersen > _______________________________________________ calligra-devel mailing list calligra-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/calligra-devel
