From kfm-devel Wed Feb 17 08:15:36 1999 From: Waldo Bastian Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 08:15:36 +0000 To: kfm-devel Subject: Re: konqueror components X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kfm-devel&m=92386536625642 Teodor Romeo Mihai wrote: > There is > nothing wrong about thinking of the future - as long as we have a steady > present. A real desktop environment is made with good applications, > which we don't quite have, and they require good libraries and good > documentation. You can't make the things perfect, but nobody asks that. > What you can do is provide a base, before thinking too hard about the > next kfm. I know it's more exciting to decide the next features of the > version 1.1 rather than writing the help for 1.0, but it's up to you to > decide which one is the mature choice. We're not here to provide the base. The base is Qt, kdelibs , CORBA and openparts. We are here to make KFM a mature product for when we reach KDE 2.0 and at this moment that requires well thought out design. Features like clipboards are nice but not under discussion at the moment. They will be made when Qt offers us the base technology. We are not in a hurry of any kind, so we can afford to wait with it till Qt has this ready, which will be quite soon anyway. (Don't get me wrong, feel free to discuss how a clipboard should work, but the idea is that we wait with actually making it till Qt2.0 is ready. Since most people seem to agree on how a clipboard should work, this is not a big issue. Note also that "how a clipboard should work" is very different from how it works in todays KFM, which could be best described as "not") Documentation is very usefull as well, therefor it's very important to write about the new design of KFM so that we can include these documents with the source. Documenting how KDF worked in KDE 1.0/1.1 is of little use, since it is going to change anyway. Cheers, Waldo -- KDE, Making The Future of Computing Available Today http://www.kde.org