[Qt-creator] QtCreator on netbooks

Daniel Price deepblue842 at googlemail.com
Fri Jul 10 17:37:47 CEST 2009


I'm using GNOME, not KDE.

On 10 Jul 2009, at 09:38, Enrico Ros wrote:

> A couple of tips:
> - disable the windows decorations (under KDE4 hit ALT+F3 -> advanced  
> -> no
> border) to get some pixels back, and
> - use CTRL+Scroll Wheel to make the font smaller and fit more text  
> to the
> screen
>
> Enrico
>
> On Friday 10 July 2009 02:24:10 Daniel Price wrote:
>> This is purely a cosmetic request.
>>
>> I use QtCreator on a netbook in both XP, OSX and Ubuntu. Creator is
>> unfriendly to the small screen size (1024x600) due to the arbitrary
>> minimum dimensions of the main window and the fact that is is a
>> strict, MDI-style application. Strangely, I've found that Creator
>> *can* be resized to smaller dimensions on XP (in which case the build
>> status icons are obscured by the output and run buttons) and is just
>> usuable, but this is not the case with OSX or Ubuntu.
>>
>> Is there any chance this could be fixed? The UI should more
>> customizable, perhaps with toolbars which can be undocked. The icons
>> across the horizontal dividers are tiny (great) but the icons in the
>> 'mode' bar are far too large. At the very least, it should be  
>> possible
>> to hide mode bar so that the window frame can be shrunk down further.
>>
>> I understand that when we develop software on huge LCDs, we tend to
>> forget the little guys!
>>
>> Other than this, Creator works very well on the netbook!
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