From kde-panel-devel  Thu Jul 31 18:47:45 2008
From: "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () kde ! org>
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2008 18:47:45 +0000
To: kde-panel-devel
Subject: Re: libplasma in 4.2: binary compatibility and moving to kdelibs
Message-Id: <200807311247.45430.aseigo () kde ! org>
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On Thursday 31 July 2008, Alex Merry wrote:
> On Thursday 31 July 2008 08:35:22 Riccardo Iaconelli wrote:
> > P.S. Personally I'm still looking for a better name for PanelSvg, it has
> > already lead several times for confusion (people saying on IRC... "ok,
> > but I don't want to create a panel..."). What about 9PiecesSvg? Or, let=
's
> > look for a better name!
>
> Erm... BorderedSvg?

i really don't want to have a whole bunch of API refactorings that result i=
n=20
all sorts of name changes, re-orderings, etc.

we will never have a *perfect* API, we do want a good one though. at some=20
point we'll be having to live with whatever is there until KDE5. i'd like t=
o=20
start seeing us practice some of the discipline that it will take to do tha=
t.

that means doing API reviews before something goes in (the Exteder API revi=
ew=20
is an awesome example of How To Do It imho; massive kudos to everyone=20
participating there!)

it also means knowing when a change might be nice but not bring enough bene=
fit=20
to be worth it.

to me BorderedSvg versus PanelSvg is not a huge win. BorderedSvg might be=20
marginally (excus the pun ;) better, but then we'd have to go through and=20
change all references to PanelSvg (documentation included). is it worth it?=
 i=20
personally don't think so ...

what i'd *like* to do, however, is start collecting a list of these API=20
changes  on the wiki so we can track them and discuss them.

=2D-=20
Aaron J. Seigo
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