From kde-i18n  Fri Apr 02 17:16:12 1999
From: Simon Hausmann <tronical () gmx ! net>
Date: Fri, 02 Apr 1999 17:16:12 +0000
To: kde-i18n
Subject: Re: text viewing
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On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, Matt Koss wrote:
[...]
> >But if someone has really too much time he could write a smart Widget,
> >derived from QMultiLineEdit, being capable to handle links... ;-)
> >I think this is a compromise, or? What do you think?
> 
> I agree.
> IMO it won't be that much work. Just parsing for URL regexps and highlighting
> them. I guess that knotes have some code for this as well as kmail.

Hm, wait, I had a closer look at QMultiLineEdit. I'm afraid it's a little
bit more work than expected. For example I see easy way to  highlight
(underline?) text. But perhaps I just failed to notice something related
in QME's api/src...
KNotes does not support anything like this and KJots goes a different way
by offering a popup menu, containing "open url", for marked text.

So we can either write a more or less completely new widget, use khtml or
we view text without this feature.

Any other ideas/opinions? Perhaps I was wrong with my above statement and
it's possible to use QME for this?

My personal "vote" : I'd love to have this feature, but I myself currently
do not have the time to implement it :-)
(but I wouldn't like a htmlview-solution, because of possible speed loss)

Greetings,
 Simon