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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] knewsticker
From:       George Staikos <staikos () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-03-08 16:10:02
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Ok so basically it's only worth seriously testing externally loaded applets 
before this release.  We dont' need to really support things that require 
configfile hackery.  At least not when we're pushing to get a release out and 
the list of bugs in a section of code is as long as I found in such a casual 
test.

On Friday 08 March 2002 09:00, John Firebaugh wrote:
> On Thursday 07 March 2002 08:37 pm, George Staikos wrote:
> > KNewsticker didn't work on my machine.  After some probing I found out
> > why. It is being loaded with appletproxy and it is giving it the
> > configfile name "libknewstickerappletrc".  However the config panel
> > writes
> > knewstickerappletrc.  If I'm not mistaken, modules are not supposed to
> > start with "lib" now right?  This changes that, and everything works
> > fine.
>
> See my other mail about naming conventions.
>
> > In addition, why must all modules be loaded external now?  The option to
> > load the modules internal seems to be gone (unless I'm just missing it
> > somehow?).
>
> Matthias and I decided to remove that tab from kcmkicker, as it is
> something that regular users should not be exposed to. The default is to
> load all startup applets and extensions internal. Your old settings are
> still preserved and the config is still parsed, so you can make changes
> directly to kickerrc if needed.
>
> later,
> John
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George Staikos

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