From kde-core-devel  Fri Aug 23 23:32:37 2002
From: "Dawit A." <adawit () kde ! org>
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2002 23:32:37 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: PATCH:KLineEdit
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=103023216801992

On Saturday 24 August 2002 17:49, Waldo Bastian wrote:
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> On Friday 23 August 2002 02:25 pm, Dawit A. wrote:
> > Since we are in a freeze, would anyone object to the following patch th=
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> > makes an insignificant change in terms of KLineEdit's functionality and
> > adds one new member function ?
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> Why is this needed?

Mainly this is to prevent unnecessary updates to when things did not change.
=46or example, I used this in kcm_clock to prevent update of the hour and m=
inute=20
line edit when only the second changed.  So if you selected the clock to=20
change the time for example,  it will not be automatically deselected=20
everytime the second ticks.  This could of course can be done differently=20
from within the app itself, but one thing I noticed is that many people do=
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not bother to do that.  Perhaps meeting them half way will result in=20
consistent behavior in some of the little things that could add up to creat=
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inconsistencies.

Regards,
Dawit A.