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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: The filedialog, please read
From:       Matthias Ettrich <ettrich () troll ! no>
Date:       1999-11-04 18:37:29
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> - Why has noone from Troll been asking us how we would like it to
> work? If you Trolls are so gung-ho about us using it we should have
> been involved in the design. This has been an ongoing issue with the

This is getting unfair. As a Troll I don't care whatever filedialog KDE uses.
As KDE developer and user, I want KDE to have a good filedialog.

Reggie and Torben designed the new file dialog mainly from a  KDE perspective,
to fulfill the subclassing needs and the flexibility required. Few of our
commercial customers will need this flexibility, it was mainly development time
invested for KDE. The snapshot releases and the public CVS are an open
invitiation to see what's going on and to comment on that.

Please think twice before posting accusations like that.  It's not that easy to
be a Troll, with commercial customers that pay for your living on the one
side and KDE and the fun in hacking for it on the other. We are trying to
combine both, so that both sides win. Sometimes we manage that, sometimes we
fail. Much of the work done in QFileDialog will help KDE in several places
(just think about QIconView) in either way.

Regarding the hall of shame: If you read this page you would notice that
QFileDialog fixes the majority of the problems mentioned there for the original
windows dialog.

I'm really getting pissed by that discussion. What's the big thing about a file
dialog? It's bascially a stupid dialog box to select a file. Why are you guys
making a religious question out of it just you were envolved in the design? How
much code was designed and removed or replaced form the other developers? Guys,
that's a completely normal thing! *If* you really care that much about your
baby as you claim here, then maintain it. There's was more than a year time,
there are still some weeks left. What we have now doesn't even work and you
blame Reggie and Torben for writing code?!

I will really stop commenting on that now. This is getting ridiculously stupid.
Finally we see what the 'K' stands for: Kindergarden.


Matthias
     ... stopping hacking for today and having a beer

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