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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Future of kdelibs
From:       Bernd Gehrmann <bernd () physik ! hu-berlin ! de>
Date:       1999-05-19 11:26:18
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When looking at kdelibs, especially kdeui, it is obvious that 
there is a host of classes which have a similar or identical 
purpose as classes in Qt. Of course, there is nothing wrong
with having things like KTMainWindow which still have a
substantial advantage compared to Qt, but for many of them
an advantage is not obvious, or at least the documentation 
doesn't explain it. Especially for the beginner, this is a
confusing situation. I think it would be good to clean up all
this stuff better today than tomorrow. If retaining compa-
tibility for old applications is in important point, than it
may be an idea to create a library 'libkde1compat' or whatever
in order to make clear that these classes are not supposed to
be used in new apps. Some classes which immediately come to
my mind:

KPoint
KSize
KRect
KCombo
KTopLevelWindow
KFontDialog
KColorDialog
KPanner
KNewPanner
KProgress
KSpinBox
KWizard
KMsgBox

Comments?

Bernd.

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