Re: icons of floating widgets in gui

[Daniel J Sebald]

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