Set up consistent margins in the various layouts

The hard coded margins were random and inconsistent and generally ended up
with a rather unbalanced look. This was worse on Mac than on other
platforms, as there the margins get exaggerated for some reason.

This code is a bit of a hack and a bit brute force, but it seems to work
to create a much more pleasing appearance. It may need some fine tuning
(depending on OS or DE (under Linux)), but it definitely seems like a
massive improvement.

Signed-off-by: Dirk Hohndel <dirk@hohndel.org>
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Dirk Hohndel 2015-01-02 12:39:56 -08:00
parent a6a76fbffd
commit 66c2d3d9da

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@ -135,6 +135,26 @@ MainWindow::MainWindow() : QMainWindow(),
QLayoutItem *p = ui.gridLayout->takeAt(0);
ui.gridLayout->addWidget(toolBar, 0, 0);
ui.gridLayout->addItem(p, 0, 1);
// and now for some layout hackery
// this gets us consistent margins everywhere and a much more balanced look
QMargins margins(5, 5, 5, 5);
QList<QString> dontChange;
dontChange << "notesAndSocialNetworksLayout" << ui.gridLayout->objectName();
Q_FOREACH (QLayout *layout, findChildren<QLayout *>()) {
// lots of internally used layouts by Qt have no names
// don't mess with those (or scroll bars look terrible, among other things
if (layout->objectName().isEmpty())
continue;
// this allows us to exclude specific layouts where the one size fits all
// doesn't fit
if (dontChange.contains(layout->objectName()))
continue;
layout->setContentsMargins(margins);
}
margins = QMargins(0, 5, 5, 5);
ui.gridLayout->setContentsMargins(margins);
updateManager = new UpdateManager(this);
}