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>

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/qt-ui/mainwindow.cpp b/qt-ui/mainwindow.cpp
index 8703fc38a..03f93a64d 100644
--- a/qt-ui/mainwindow.cpp
+++ b/qt-ui/mainwindow.cpp
@@ -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);
 }