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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: style, color and font changes: now or after RC1/beta2?
From:       Neil Stevens <neil () qualityassistant ! com>
Date:       2002-01-28 23:43:05
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On Monday January 28, 2002 02:57, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Saturday 26 January 2002 08:17 am, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > > Can you repost it?
> >
> > it keeps the KIPC notifications for styles, fonts and colors as i
> > wasn't sure if they would be needed or not .... once all the kcm's are
> > finished i will test it without those flags in the KApplication
> > kipcEventMask ... if they aren't needed at that point (which they
> > shouldn't be) then even more code can be removed ...
>
> I think this approach is fundamentally flawed in that it doesn't use
> KConfig for looking up the settings. KDE applications should read their
> settings from KConfig, using QSettings instead is a step back that I'm
> not willing to take.
>
> If Qt applications have no means of adjusting to the KDE settings then
> that is a shortcoming of Qt that should be fixed in Qt. Degrading KDE to
> overcome that is not the way to go.
>
> I would love to discuss a solution together with TrollTech but so far
> they do not seem to be interested in this issue.

Just a little reminder - QApplication::setStyle does exist, free of the 
unload issues, because it knows nothing about libraries.

-- 
Neil Stevens
neil@qualityassistant.com

Don't think of a bug as a problem.  Think of it as a call to action.
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