Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 12:39:56 -0400 From: The Anarcat <anarcat@anarcat.dyndns.org> To: Alexander Langer <alex@big.endian.de> Cc: Libh <freebsd-libh@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: disklabel can now display sub parts Message-ID: <20011010123956.B531@shall.anarcat.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: <20011010114108.E1967@zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de> References: <20011009192007.C601@shall.anarcat.dyndns.org> <20011010114108.E1967@zerogravity.kawo2.rwth-aachen.de>
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--61jdw2sOBCFtR2d/ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed Oct 10, 2001 at 11:41:08AM +0200, Alexander Langer wrote: > Thus spake The Anarcat (anarcat@anarcat.dyndns.org): >=20 > > such. One thing: Qt here uses variable-width font, so the columns are > > not aligned. It would be interesting to have some "table" widget > > instead of "tabbed" listboxes. >=20 > That's on my todo. Basically, I want to rewrite Qt's "tabbed" part > to use Qt table widgets to display correctly (=3D=3D aligned). > So Listboxes could be used w/o tables and w/ tables. ok.. so hack listbox.. hmm... shouldn't we use a "table widget" as such? as in QListView? > If you need it, use \t alignment for now, and I'll implement it > ASAP. =20 no hurry. But yes, it would make the editor look nicer. :) > > If there is no table widget available, I'll probably try to setup the > > label editor as a list of buttons/fields/labels in various containers. > > Then the problem will be of having this area "panable". >=20 > Ouch, no. I already know _how_ to add support for this to Qt's > listbox widget, but it's an annoying task since you have to > recalculate for every add/remove of lines... . >=20 > I should do it, nevertheless. Maybe this evening :) No hurry, again. The GUI is the candy, I'm looking at implementing functionality, right now. After I'll make it look cute. :) > > Note that the "available disks" listbox is doomed to go. That or the > > disk units from the "available partitions" listbox. I think the disk > > lines are important there because they delimit which partitions are on > > which disk, and inform about the space left. >=20 > Feel free to remove every duplicated code, and do more stuff. > To be honest, I didn't really design the diskeditor before > starting working on it, so if you find design issues now, > you should fix them :)) > > Now, the thing is that if disklabel "replaces" diskwizard, users might > > be confused if they arrive to disklabel first and that there is nothing > > there (in the case of a new install). Logically, the fdisk operation >=20 > If it's still easy and straightforward to create those stuff, > I'm ok with those changes. ack. > > goes before the disklabel operation... A workaround might be to popup > > the fdisk dialog before, but then on which disk??? >=20 > That's why I did those initial screen :) Yes, but the label editor looks *a lot* like this initial screen, when no disks are fdisk'd. > > Little quirk I haven't figured out, the disks get out backwards (ad1 > > then ad0)... >=20 > Yeah. Sort them manually in libh, we can't rely on kern.disks here. k. > I really don't know what happens to pcmcia disks anyways - are > they added to the end of the list? etc... let's hope so... no pcmcia to test here.. :) a. --61jdw2sOBCFtR2d/ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjvEedsACgkQttcWHAnWiGfAIwCfdA8+KRcIVm0Fecc+yJhOZYBB PwMAniZKAfVmZFtla3VXYBYmKNasFNvm =yV8d -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --61jdw2sOBCFtR2d/-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-libh" in the body of the message
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