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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: style, color and font changes: now or after RC1/beta2?
From:       Dirk Mueller <mueller () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-01-30 0:17:22
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On Mon, 28 Jan 2002, Waldo Bastian wrote:

> "Not moving away from KStandardDirs" and "Letting Qt 3.x handle the style 
> settings" seems mutual exclusive to me. 

Why ? What is the main concern ? that KDE edits a config file that is 
outside of KStandardDirs ? or that Qt places its config file not in a 
KStandardDirs ?

> I would like to be able to setup different KDEDIRS and have my KDE 
> applications look based on that KDEDIRS setting. 

But it wouldn't work then for Qt applications.

> If we would have sticked with the limitations of Qt we would have 100 hundred 
> different configuration files under $HOME in 100 different formats and 
> messageboxes with "Retry / Fail / Abort". Sorry, but that's not how it works. 
> KDE defines the policy for the KDE platform, not Qt. If Qt makes it 
> impossible to implement a policy then Qt should be fixed.

well, what do you suggest ? Qt duplicating KStandardDirs in qtconfig to be 
able to customize KDE's style settings ? Thats not going to happen I guess. 


Dirk
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