Custom Styling

KDDockWidgets allows you to derive from several internal widgets (now called views, more QWidget agnostic term) and provide your own paintEvent and sizings (or .qml files for QtQuick).

You can derive any of these components:

• MainWindow
• DockWidget
• FloatingWindow, the window containing one or more dock widgets
• TitleBar
• Group, a group of tabbed dock widgets with a titlebar
• TabBar, similar concept to QTabBar
• Stack, similar concept to QTabWidget.
• Separator, allows resizing dock widgets inside a layout
• RubberBand, indicates the drop location when dragging
• SideBar, the sidebar when using the "auto hide feature"
• ClassicDropIndicatorOverlay, the drop indicators
• SegmentedDropIndicatorOverlay, the drop indicators in segmented mode

After deriving one or more of the above, create a custom ViewFactory.h which returns your derived instances. Then call KDDockWidgets::Config::self().setViewFactory(new MyCustomWidgetFactory());.

See examples/dockwidgets/MyViewFactory.h for QtWidgets, or examples/qtquick/customtitlebar/ for QtQuick.

CSS

Qt StyleSheets are not, and will not, be supported. See the comments in examples/dockwidgets/MyTitleBar_CSS.h for why. You can however use some minimal CSS, as shown in that example, just don't report bugs about it.