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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: RFC: Removal of KAutoConfig / KAutoConfigDialog
From:       Tobias Koenig <tokoe () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-11-13 8:00:05
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On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 09:24:24PM -0500, Benjamin Meyer wrote:
Hi,

> > > When an application is ported to use
> > > an auto configured dialog be it KAutoConfig or KConfig_Compiler you have
> > > to do the __SAME__ thing!  It is like building two cars, but one is blue
> > > and one is red.  Just because the color is different doesn't mean that
> > > 99% of the work isn't the same.
> >
> > Right, but your blue car is being painted red first, then being painted
> > blue afterwards.
> 
> Yah, but when it takes 4 days to build a car and thirty eight seconds to paint 
> the car suddenly that little detail of building the car makes a big ass deal.  
<nitpicker>
So why don't you save these thirty eight additionally seconds by painting it
the right color immediately?
</nitpicker>

If KAutoConfig is so similar to KConfig_Compiler why porting it first to
KAutoConfig and then with a quick hack to KConfig_Compiler... that makes
no sense IMHO.

Ciao,
Tobias
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