From kde-core-devel  Tue Aug 31 15:45:57 1999
From: Stephan Kulow <coolo () caldera ! de>
Date: Tue, 31 Aug 1999 15:45:57 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: Re: KTabListBox
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=93611421912697

Richard Moore wrote:
> 
> >
> > QFileDialog is now async, network transparent and URL based, and it's possible
> > to add dynamically network protocol implementations (I only tested with ftp but
> > you can add every protocol). And QFileDialog has preview modes. I don't know
> > what you mean by flexible, but QFileDialog has following things, which
> 
> ??? It has none of this according to the Qt 2.01 docs, what gives?
You definitly haven't heard about QUrl and QNetProtocol... 
> 
> > KFileDialog doesn't have
> > - Drag'n'Drop (copy/move)
> > - in-place renaming
> > - deleting of files
> 
> All three of these would be easy to add tp KfileDialog too. KFileDialog
> also has:
> 
> - Bookmarks
> - Single or double click navigation
> - The ability to mix dirs and files into a single view, or to keep the
> separate.
> - LOTS of flexibility about how it can be subclassed. Much more so than
> QFileDialog, especially in terms of how the UI can be extended.
> - The ability to add 'internal' application virtual file systems by
> subuclassing
> KDir. This could be used to navigate a data structure for example.
> - Multi glob patterns
> - KDE look and feel rather than Windows.

Get them, Rich! Get them! :)

Greetings, Stephan

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