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List:       kde-i18n
Subject:    Re: text viewing
From:       Lars Knoll <knoll () mpi-hd ! mpg ! de>
Date:       1999-04-01 15:00:57
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On Thu, 01 Apr 1999, Simon Hausmann wrote:
>On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Sven Radej wrote:
>
>> On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Simon Hausmann wrote:
>> (...)
>> >But in case of Konqueror I think it's sufficient to have a builtin viewer
>> >(and just like every feature: turn it of if you don't want it) with the
>> >following advantages:
>> > a) fast
>> > b) small, simple
>> > c) not bloated (QMultiLineEdit is your friend :)
>> >   (for example I don't think we really need syntax highlighting for fast
>> >    text viewing in konqy. Well, of course it would be nice, but is it
>> >    really important? opinions are welcome :)
>> 
>> I'd prefer just pumping it into HTML widget. What else can QMultiLineEdit give
>> you? You can read, you can search, you can save it, and ok, if you really want
>> to edit it you can request  editor to open it.
>
>I think that's all a text viewer should be able to do, right? :)
>But what else can a HTML widget give us?
>Ah, perhaps hyperlink capability?  Yes, this sounds interesting IMHO...
>OTOH this would be slower than QMultiLineEdit: Converting a whole text
>into readable HTML, parse for links, HTML parsing time (although khtml
>seems to be very fast) .
>What do you think? Other advantages by using a HTML widget?

One I could think of: The ability to easily choose a character encoding for the
text. Imagine you have a text in koi8-r, iso859-8 or even Unicode encoding. Is
it (easily) possible to get it correctly displayed in QMultilineEdit?

Cheers,
Lars

>Use it as optional feature perhaps?
>
>Greetings,
> Simon
>
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>> Sven Radej     radej@kde.org
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>>

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