On Friday 30 November 2012 20:09:00 Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 30, 2012 at 08:05:55PM +0100, David Faure wrote:
> > On Friday 30 November 2012 19:40:45 Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > > On Tue, Nov 27, 2012 at 07:39:09PM +0100, David Faure wrote:
> > > > The "don't show again" checkbox will only store in memory (like
> > > > QErrorMessage does) on systems where the plugin isn't available.
> > > 
> > > this makes the api virtually non-deterministic (and thus worthless) from
> > > the app dev's pov.
> > 
> > It makes no difference to the app dev. The user is the one who gets
> > different behavior when running the app on a system where more of KF5 is
> > installed than on a system where a standalone app ships a minimal amount
> > of KF5 libs.
> as an app developer i'm interested in delivering a consistent user
> experience. no way in hell i'm going to leave this to the "moods" of the
> framework. "screw this api" is the only response you can expect from app
> devs.

God knows Qt has the exact same behavior on all the platforms... not.

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David Faure, faure@kde.org, http://www.davidfaure.fr
Working on KDE, in particular KDE Frameworks 5