Re: icons of floating widgets in gui

[Torsten]

On 30.10.2012 19:19, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
> On 10/30/2012 06:13 AM, Michael Goffioul wrote:
>> On Tue, Oct 30, 2012 at 2:59 AM, Daniel J Sebald <address@hidden
>> <mailto:address@hidden>> wrote:
>>
>>     On 10/30/2012 01:48 AM, Daniel J Sebald wrote:
>>
>>             At the moment, all floating widgets have the octave-logo as
>>             icon for
>>             distinct assignment to octave in alt-tab- or tasks-panels.
>>             The only
>>             exception is the terminal widget (fix here:
>>             https://bitbucket.org/ttl/__octave-ttl/changeset/204caff
>>             <https://bitbucket.org/ttl/octave-ttl/changeset/204caff>).
>>
>>
>>     I'm running Gnome.  Perhaps this is different and functionality is
>>     GUI dependent or controllable.  In the Alt-Tab I only see the Octave
>>     icon for the main window, but no floating widgets, which is probably
>>     the way it should be on my system because those floating widgets
>>     aren't independently stackable.
>>
>>
>> That's unfortunately the default behavior of QDockWidget system, which
>> is mainly intended for dockable toolbars.. That's why I suggested a
>> while back that we'd probably need our own docking system.
> 
> OK, I see that now.  The documentation calls the undocked widget "top
> level".
> 
> Perhaps this isn't too difficult to change.  There is a signal sent went
> the float button is clicked.  From that we can get the dock widget
> pointer.  Then removeDockWidget( QDockWidget * dockwidget ) can be used
> to take the widget off of the main window.  If that widget can then be
> put into another container or even a second main window which only has
> one item, maybe that would work.
> 
> The difficult part would be restoring the separated widget to the main
> window, but there are state and geometry features, so it might be doable.
> 
> Dan

The widgets are now changed into normal windows when floating. This was
implemented with changeset 15552:bbbb89cc338f
http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/bbbb89cc338f

Torsten