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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    RE: Konqy & KIOLittleProgressWidget
From:       "David Faure" <faure () kde ! org>
Date:       1999-11-30 16:40:58
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> I was looking at the Konqy sources, and tried to switch from
> KonqProgressProxy to KIOLittleProgressDlg.
> I was almost done, but then I realized, that KonqIconView uses different
way of
> showing progress, and instead of using KonqProgressProxy it only emits
signal
> loadingProgress.
Oh that's right.

> Because KIOLittleProgressDlg is only suitable for showing IO progress and
> speed, I guess that we should stick with KonqProgressProxy in konqy.
> It's the only way of showing progress for some special views and thus it's
> probably not feasible to introduce a different way for views that use
KIOJob.
> Let's keep the things consistent.
Yup.

> Is it true that all apps that create konqy views have to use libkonq ?
No !
They only use kdelibs/interfaces/browser.h

> Then I would suggest to move KonqProgressProxy to libkonq, because also
kview's
> konqy view uses it. This class should be only in one place.
Impossible for now, since there is no common lib.
The next KParts could take care of that though.

> KIOLittleProgressDlg is meant for normal applications ( I mean that konqy
is
> something special :-) ), that load URL's ( e.g. remote files ).
> Imagine opening kedit and loading a remote file. Kedit then
> contains this progress widget embedded in the statusbar.
Yup.

Ok, then, better not change konqy for now, AFAICS.

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

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