Throughout the years KDAB has contributed and funded bug fixes and features to QDockWidget. Sadly, the QDockWidget code is in such a state that each bug fix took many days and sometimes caused regressions. The codebase mixes GUI code, with logic, with state in a spaghetti manner, which makes it very hard to move forward with new features.

In hindsight, what led to QDockWidget complexity is that is supports a multitude of options and a exponential number of option combinations, times 3 platforms. From talking with our customers we gathered that none of them cared about most of those options, and all of them wanted the same 3 or 4 missing features.

This framework is under active development and has no planned release date yet.

Goals

Provide advanced docking that QDockWidgets doesn't support:
- nesting dock widgets in a floating window and docking that group back to main window
- nesting in any main window
- docking to center of main window
- main window supporting detachable tabs in center widget
- different forms of docking indicators (through plugins)
- detaching arbitrary tabs from a tab bar into a dock area
Discard unneeded features present in QDockWidgets that make the code complicated
Clean codebase
- Not mixing GUI with state with logic with animations
- Unit-test everything, even the GUI and DnD operations

Licensing

This software is provided as GPLv2 (See LICENSE.GPL.txt) or, alternatively, contact KDAB at info@kdab.com if you need different licensing.

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