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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    RE: The filedialog, please read
From:       David Faure <David.Faure () cramersystems ! com>
Date:       1999-11-04 17:13:13
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> On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, David Faure wrote:
> > > On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, David Faure wrote:
> > > > [List of KFileDialog bugs]
> > > >
> > > >This is nonsense. You are talking about the one in HEAD, which
> > > >as anything else in HEAD isn't supposed to be bug free. This is
> > > >alpha software.
> > > 
> > > Why is it nonsense? I just counted the bugs which I found in 
> > > KFileDialog in HEAD (as this is the one we a discussing about). 
> > 
> > Yes and no. It's the one people complain about, but then they say
> > "this file dialog has NEVER worked for me" (yes I'm quoting).
> > Those people forget about the 1.x version, which worked fine.
> > You can't judge KFileDialog based on the HEAD version _only_.
> 
> Since I am one of the people you are talking about, let me comment on
this.
> Granted that one can't judge KFileDialog based on the HEAD version _only_,

> but one cannot judget it purely based on the version in 1.1 either
I agree.
> and that is what's happening here 
No
>("the users never complained"? - of course not. Nobody is using it ).
Oh come on, that's really not true. Most KDE apps use it, so users use it.

Just got a mail some days ago about somebody puzzled that kfm uses single
click and kfiledialog double click. I pointed him to the configuration
dialog and he was really happy that he could turn it into single click.
This proves 2 things :
- the 1.1 version works, in case you had a doubt
- configuration dialogs are good, yes, even for a file dialog

> Fact is that ever since we started KDE-2.x development, the dialog was
> completely unusable and remained in that state. 
> 
> The topic was broad up *several* times, each time slammed down. Nobody
fixed
> anything. Now, I won't fix KFileDialog since I clearly vote for a new file
> dialog based on QFileDialog.  But those who keep claiming KFileDialog is a
> better system should either start bringing it in shape or simply shut up.
Ok then, if that's what you want I'll shut up.
Just note that 10 'users' complaining against 1 or 2 authors is not very
fair,
so I assumed I had the right to be on the side of the author(s) even
if I'm not one.

[...]

/me shuts up on this subject from now on.

--
David Faure
faure@kde.org - KDE developer
david@mandrakesoft.com - Mandrake
david.faure@cramersystems.com - Cramer Systems

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