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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Cleaning up libraries
From:       Reginald Stadlbauer <reggie () troll ! no>
Date:       1999-06-06 16:20:14
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On Sun, 06 Jun 1999, Christian Esken wrote:
>On Sun, 30 May 1999 Mario Weilguni wrote:
>>Recently there was a discussion if to remove some old classes from the core
>>libraries and move it into a compatibility library to discourage using them. I
>>assembled a list of classes which are good candidates for removal. Here's the list:
>>
>>>from kdecore
>>* kcharsets
>>* kcharsetsdata
>>These should vanish because the functionalty is mostly in Qt now. But we
>>urgently need somebody with experience with charsets to do this, and who is
>>able to test that too.
>>
>>* kpoint
>>* krect
>>* ksize
>>Reggie implemented those a while ago to overcome the limitation of 16-bit
>>integers for coordinates. Since Qt 2 uses 32-bit integers now, these should be
>>completly obsolete and should not even be moved in a compatibility library, a
>>simple sed -e 's/K(Point|Rect|Size)/Q&2/' should do the job
>>
>>>from kdeui
>>* kintegerline
>>Is already declared obsolete.
>>
>>* kslider
>>It's the same as QSlider, except it's only Windows style (according to
>>docs), which only hurts styles and doubles the work to implement styles.
>>Should be easy enough to remove.
>
>One word at the beginning. I am the authof of KSlider and I would enjoy
>geting rid of this class. But itīs not so easy.
>
>KSlider has a pageStep as well as lineStep, which QSlider does not have.
>The multimedia applications need this badly.
>Please correct me if Qt2.0 now has both "step types".

As QSlider is derived from QRangeControl, it has of course both step types.

--
Reggie

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