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Zecke's Implementation Thoughts


Task:       Kill the Dolphin Singleton
Reasoning:  Have more than one Dolphin TLW
Approach: 
    1. Create DolphinApplication to hold all TLW's.
    2. Make dolphin.h dolphomainwindow.h
    3. Change the Views to have a DolphinMainWindow
       parameter

Reasoning:
    I find it more natural that the DolphinApplication
    holds and controls the list of managed MainWindows and
    will control the life time of them, specially deleting
    them on exit.
    The downside is that DolphinApplication and DolphinMainWindow
    need to work together but this is managable

    Making DolphinView::mainWindow() public. Most users of the
    current Dolphin::mainView have a pointer to the current view
    already. We could pass a second pointer for the mainwindow each
    time but the same can be achieved by using the appropriate
    DolphinView::mainWindow.
    Another approach would be to ask the DolphinView to execute
    actions on the MainWindow like it is done with declareViewActive
    in DolphinView. I'm not entirely sure which one wins but currently
    using mainWindow() does not show any negative impact.

    2 times Dolphin::mainWin was used to check if the view is current.
    this can be made a method of of the view

    1 time we want the viewChanged signal of our mainwindow to update,
    the UrlNavigator could connect a signal to a signal to allow this

    12 times this was used to access the actionCollection