From kde-core-devel  Thu Nov 04 22:44:36 1999
From: weis <weis () stud ! uni-frankfurt ! de>
Date: Thu, 04 Nov 1999 22:44:36 +0000
To: kde-core-devel
Subject: RE: The filedialog, please read
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=94175552026588

Hi,

On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, David Faure wrote:

> > 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

This proves something else:
The GUI if the dialog was so bad that the user did not find the switch
himslef :-)))

Sorry, could not resist :-)

bye
Torben

> > 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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