From kde-core-devel  Tue May 13 22:02:48 2003
From: Christoph Cullmann <cullmann () babylon2k ! de>
Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 22:02:48 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: Moving QExtMDI to kdelibs
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=105286344116239

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1

> > If this library were in kdelibs, you wouldnt *have* to make that
> > decision, because it has a toplevel mode. In fact, IMO, the ideal
> > situation would be for every single KDE document based app to use
> > this library, with toplevel mode as the default. Then the *user*
> > decides when to use MDI and when to not use it, which is what should
> > always be the situation, IMO. Developers should not dictate to users
> > how they should use their machines.
>
> Even if QExtMDI would be in kdelibs, I don't think it would be a good
> idea to make general use of it, because it introduces complexity and a
> potential source for bugs. In my opinion developers should concentrate
> on debugging the functionality of an app not the way it arranges its
> views.
Which is for many apps who work with many documents at once a top point of the 
functionality, kdevelop would be useless if it splatters the editorwidgets 
around the screen.

- -- 
Christoph Cullmann
KDE Developer, kde.org Maintainance Team
http://www.babylon2k.de, cullmann@kde.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: GnuPG v1.2.2 (GNU/Linux)

iD8DBQE+wWuLyPjDGePm9UIRAqWzAJ9NjfD4SxMje6V//ti0kxU05hDtEgCeOR/T
V4j8oezCo9kKNJq7KZ47fz4=
=kIOk
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----