From kde-devel  Fri May 21 10:09:02 1999
From: Mosfet <mosfet () jorsm ! com>
Date: Fri, 21 May 1999 10:09:02 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Future of kdelibs
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Keep KColorDialog, I want to add user defined palettes ;-)

On Wed, 19 May 1999, Bernd Gehrmann wrote:
> 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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