From kde-core-devel  Thu Jul 13 06:54:20 2006
From: "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () kde ! org>
Date: Thu, 13 Jul 2006 06:54:20 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: New Prosal [was Re: policy change related to kdelibs snapshots]
Message-Id: <200607130054.20807.aseigo () kde ! org>
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On Wednesday 12 July 2006 21:28, Jaison Lee wrote:
> Please don't dismantle my wonderful useful KDE desktop just to
> maintain the least common denominator between operating systems.

oh, for me it's not about portability. the motive is to not have to maintai=
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our own code for this. realize that we have very few people working on libs=
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given the size and complexity of them.

additional considerations include:

 - minimizing the size of the libs a kde app pulls in; duplicated code does=
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help.
 - in this particular case i'd like to avoid having to rewrite the class,=20
which it actually needs badly as it doesn't follow the xdg spec on linux/un=
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(which ours currently doesn't; it predates it). trolltech has already done=
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the work, why should we spend our limited resources redoing that so we have=
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middle mouse clicks? that, my friends, is the definition of oddness.

the fact that ksystemtray isn't exactly portable is another consideration, =
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as you can see hardly the biggest issue we deal with.

all over preserving middle mouse clicks. yeah, that certainly worth it. *si=
gh*

> Another strange attitude surfacing recently is the "let's push everything=
 in
> the world down into Qt."

the flip side here is that trolltech put a lot of effort into qt4=20
(particularly 4.2) so that we can stop some (not all) of our duplication of=
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code because of one or two (often relatively minor) shortcomings in the qt=
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implementation. they are _trying_ to shoulder more of the load, it would be=
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nice if we could work towards that end with them.

as much as you find the "can we rely on Qt" attitude strange, i find the=20
nearly-NIH "it's in Qt, that's not kdelibs!" attitude strange ;)

in any case, i'll talk to our trolltacts (play on "trolltech contacts" ..=20
weee) about the possibility of a middle mouse button addition.

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Aaron J. Seigo
Undulate Your Wantonness
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=46ull time KDE developer sponsored by Trolltech (http://www.trolltech.com)

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