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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Patch to help with Qt command line args
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2000-04-27 7:44:08
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On Thu, Apr 27, 2000 at 03:13:06AM +0200, Carsten Pfeiffer wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 26, 2000 at 08:21:13PM +0100, David Faure wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> > Hmm, you added all of them.
> > At least title makes no sense (KDE has --caption) and I'm not sure
> 
> -title _does_ make sense, as it is a traditional commandline-parameter in
> older unix-apps. E.g. I once tried the quake3-demo, and the installer (a
> shell-script) launched a terminal (one of xterm, rxvt, eterm, ... and the
> first one it looked for was konsole). Well, the installer aborted, because
> konsole -title "Quake Installer" wouldn't work. Really frustrating for
> someone who doesn't know.
Ah ok, good point.

> What about accepting -title but not adding the documentation for it?
Ever used KCmdLineArgs ? That's impossible ;-)

We can say 'use caption instead', though.
The point is : -title will probably do nothing - but at least quake installer
will run :)

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