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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Should kpaint stay in KDE 2.2
From:       Richard Moore <rich () ipso-facto ! freeserve ! co ! uk>
Date:       2001-07-18 0:17:46
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On Wednesday 18 July 2001 00:01, Philipp Siegert wrote:
> I took a closer look at kpaint (kdegraphics package) the last two days. The
> program has some nasty bugs in the latest CVS version that make it quite
> hard to use. Here are the bugs I found:
>
> - File->Save does not work

Fixed

> - After using File->SaveAs the filename on the top of the application
> refers to the old filename.

Fixed

> - Opening remote urls didn't work. I think I fixed that. Should be in the
> CVS right now.

It is.

> - File->New. Then check "Keep picture ratio" on the upcoming dialog and
> enter a number. Then kpaint crashes.

This one is strange - seems to be something to do with KIntValidator.

>
> Of course I could report this bugs (I already reported one) but my concern
> is that they won't be fixed until the final release of KDE 2.2. There are
> few open reported bugs. I wonder if the bugs in kpaint only appeared for
> short in the CVS or if only a few people are using kpaint and noone
> reported any bugs. The gap of removing kpaint from 2.2 wouldn't be that
> big, we have Krayon, which implies the features offered by kpaint.
> I don't wan't beginners to have programs which don't work correctly and
> confuse them.

I think you're being a bit melodramatic - these are trivial to fix. A pity 
the people who broke it didn't test things a little though.

Rich.


 
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