Log-pane refinements

[Jake Peck]

The log pane can stand to be refined, particularly in the following areas:

- Re-orderable tabs (with drag and drop) would be nice.

- The ability to dock/undock/float tabs from the pane would be nice as well.

- The ability to delete/close tabs in the log pane (except a few vital ones like Log and Find) would be wonderful, without resorting to a script to call g.app.log.deleteTab. Mainly, a context menu on right click of a tab name, providing a 'delete this tab' item would be wonderful. If this happens, there should be a flag when adding new tabs to the log pane, something like "closable=False" as a default, so that old plugins still work as intended.

[tbnorth (terry-n-brown)]

On Fri, 15 Nov 2013 20:10:18 -0000
Jake Peck <email address hidden> wrote:

> Public bug reported:
>
> The log pane can stand to be refined, particularly in the following
> areas:
>
> - Re-orderable tabs (with drag and drop) would be nice.
>
> - The ability to dock/undock/float tabs from the pane would be nice as
> well.

free_layout (right click pane dividers) essentially does this. Open
window acts as a float option

> - The ability to delete/close tabs in the log pane (except a few vital
> ones like Log and Find) would be wonderful, without resorting to a

It should be possible to add a context menu to the tabs, like the
tabbed Leo interface itself has.

 - close could be on that context menu
 - detach on that context menu could trigger a free_layout open window
   on the relevant tab
 - re-ordering tabs is, I think, just a flag you set on the tab widget

> script to call g.app.log.deleteTab. Mainly, a context menu on right
> click of a tab name, providing a 'delete this tab' item would be
> wonderful. If this happens, there should be a flag when adding new tabs
> to the log pane, something like "closable=False" as a default, so that
> old plugins still work as intended.
>
> ** Affects: leo-editor
> Importance: Wishlist
> Status: New
>

[Edward K. Ream (edreamleo)]

On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 2:33 PM, tbnorth <email address hidden> wrote:

​> ​
free_layout (right click pane dividers) essentially does this.

​But this is the Easter Egg interface.​

​I've just made LeoTabbedTopLevel a subclass of LeoBaseTabWidget, a
subclass of QTabWidget.

If dw.createTabWidget created a LeoBaseTabWidget instead of a QTabWidget,
all tabs in the Tab Pane would have the same context menus as top-level
windows. This is not a complete solution, because LeoTabbedTopLevel uses a
TabbedFrameFactory as its 'factory' ivar.

Very complicated.

​> ​
- re-ordering tabs is, I think, just a flag you set on the tab widget

​Yes. Can be done by calling dw.setMovable(True) ​in leoQtLog.__init__.

dw.createTabWidget could also call w.tabBar().setTabsClosable(True)​ to put
make each tab closable. However, the class must be connected to an signal
to do something. And perhaps it's a bad idea allow the the log tab to
close.

​T​
his is turning into an unwanted project just now. I'll up what I have and
leave it at that...
​​

Edward