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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: idea for using kfind
From:       Carsten Pfeiffer <carpdjih () cetus ! zrz ! tu-berlin ! de>
Date:       2001-09-01 13:58:31
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On Freitag, 31. August 2001 06:12 Doug Hanley wrote:

> I think it would be cool if there were a kfind ioslave, as well as a kpart.
> The ioslave would do the actual finding work, and the kpart would handle
> the gui aspect, gathering the options and arguments then passing them along
> to the ioslave.  One big advantage of that would be that other parts of kde
> or other apps could very easily use the funtionality of kfind (the ioslave)
> without having to display the dialog.  I'm not sure if this would be a
> better idea than just putting kfind in kdelibs like you said, but it just
> seems more nifty.

KFind already is based on KIO, and it's already a KPart. To make the 
find-functionality accessible, you would just have to add the KQuery class to 
kdelibs.

> Also, I think it would be better if the find dialog were somehow put into
> the konqueror sidebar, it looks kind of wierd where it is right now (above
> the main view), but that is probably more of a konqueror thing than a kfind
> thing.

Yes.

> if you need any help working on this, I would be glad to help out, although
> I am kind of new at programming KDE.

Patches are always welcome :)

Cheers
Carsten Pfeiffer
 
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