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[Adam Reichold <adamreichold@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Hello again,

There is one update concerning tabs: I just committed trunk revision
467 where one can change the application-wide Qt style sheet to change
the style of Qt widgets.

As one can seriously degrade the interface doing this, it is again
documented in the manual page only. But it can for example be used to
change the height or width of the tabs by adding the line

styleSheet="QTabBar::tab { height: 20px; }"

or

styleSheet="QTabBar::tab { width: 20px; }"

somewhere below "mainWindow" in the configuration file usually at
"~/.config/qpdfview/qpdfview.conf". (Set height or width depending on
whether the tabs are at the top/bottom or left/right.)

Basically, this opens the possibility for "theming" qpdfview as much
as one dares to. But be warned again that this might degrade the
interface significantly.

The intricacies of the Qt style sheet system are for example
documented at "http://qt-project.org/doc/qt-4.8/stylesheet.html";.

Best regards, Adam.

On 17.07.2012 03:46, Sandor Ortegon wrote:
> 
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Just to comment that I have tested tab management today and I have
>  observed this:
> 
> 1) My mistake: The mouse wheel works to change tabs when placed on 
> the tab bar regardless the location of the tab bar 
> (top/bottom/left/right). I tried once and thought it wasn't
> working when the tab bar was placed on top, but actually it works.
> 
> 2) Now I see the tab length is reduced in the latest version (July 
> 16) when the filename is too large. However, the behavior is 
> somewhat strange, not very uniform in the size of the tabs (you
> can see after opening/closing several tabs), large filenames in
> very small tabs together with other names with similar length in
> large tabs. I am fine with the way it behaves, but I don't know if
> the behavior is intentional or not.
> 
> 3) On the default .conf file: After reviewing the behavior or the 
> mouse wheel, I see that tabs could be on top by default, as it 
> currently is.
> 
> I am just thinking on the fact that usually in reading PDF files, 
> vertical height of screens is too small compared with horizontal 
> width, and also most documents have inverse behavior (height
> bigger than width), so saving vertical space in a reader is
> important nowadays and thats why browsers invest time in saving
> vertical space with things like tabs without main menu and things
> like that. Thats why I think choosing by default options that save
> vertical space could surprise favorably new users. But again, is a
> matter of opinion and personal taste, rather that anything else (I
> don't know what other users in the mailing list think about this).
> 
> Thanks for your attention, this viewer is becoming better and 
> better in each update.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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