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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: (fwd) Re: The filedialog, please read
From:       Leon Widdershoven <l.widdershoven () fz-juelich ! de>
Date:       1999-11-04 19:50:17
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which is why Reggie is changing the api of QFileDialog. This gives
KDE the opportunity to custimize the dialog while the Trolls 
are maintaining the core.
The nice thing of inheritance is that you can overwrite what
you don't like:)

Leon 


Carsten Pfeiffer wrote:
> 
> On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 07:22:04PM +0100, Dirk A. Mueller wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > because "it's cool". Let's inherit KFileDialog and change the GUI and
> > implement the features we like (bookmarks, configuration, "go to homedir"
> > button and all those stuff that QFileDialog misses).
> 
> what QFileDialog does not offer:
> - Icons according to Mimetype
> - automatic directory updates (KDirWatch)
> - single click/double click
> - NO autocompletion (the autocompletion really sucks, and you can't even
>   rotate between matching items)
> - it's not extensible (no treeview, a prgrammer can't add custom views
>   (correct me if I'm wrong)
> - you can't reuse the filebrowser outside the dialog, while _many_
>   programs need to have a little filebrowserwidget, be it a treeview,
>   simpleview, detailview, or any other
>   (this is the most important misfeature, as every programmer will have to
>   implement its own browser, and every one will look and act different)
> - it doesn't save its state (view, size, ...)
> - bookmarks
> 
> And that Windows fileselector looks really alien in KDE.
> 
> Cheers,
> Carsten Pfeiffer
> --
> http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/1632/

-- 
No pain, no gain                         Leon Widdershoven
                            (l.widdershoven@fz-juelich.de)
                               Institute of Plasma Physics
                            Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH

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