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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: The filedialog, please read
From:       Christian Esken <esken () kde ! org>
Date:       1999-11-05 19:05:31
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Am Don, 04 Nov 1999 schrieb pbrown@redhat.com:
> OK I am not going to quote all the points that have been made and then
> systematically try to win the debate.  :)
> 
> KFileDialog is a nice attempt.  I'm not saying it can't be a great dialog.
> But the simple fact is _right now_, it is _broken_.  And it has been
> broken for _ages_.
> 
> QFileDialog is _not_ broken.

At the moment it is - see my other mail (and other arguments as well).
> 
> These are the facts.  Now, if someone is going to fix up KFileDialog to be
> _good_, and before the end of November, then great.   Let's keep it.  But
> let's set some sort of deadline.  If the hacking doesn't get done, no
> finger pointing, no whining, clearly the KDE project doesn't have the
> spare cycles to handle the issue.  And at that point I don't see why using
> QFileDialog is such a bad thing.  Reggie has offered to make it highly

Because all applications have to be ported (QFS has different API).
Fixing KFS should be less work.

  Christian

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