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List:       koffice
Subject:    Re: kmail & koffice
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2000-05-24 6:18:54
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On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 06:32:27AM +0200, Werner Trobin wrote:
> troy wrote:
> > 
> > Is it not possible to integrate kmail into the KOShell applications and embed
> > it.  This would also be good for konqueror.  If these two were able to be
> > added to KOSHell, I don't think I could come up with a reason to leave the
> > program at all.
> 
> IMHO this is not the intention of KOShell - it's just a KOffice Super Window,
> like dep said :)
> 
> Konqueror is a viewer - so, again IMHO, it's not designed to embed kmail.
> 
> As I've said twice, this is MHO!

It is also a design decision for konqueror. In the OpenParts days, it used to
be itself embeddable (in koshell, for choosing a file to open), but we ruled
that out and koshell uses a simple file-selection dialog.
I think there has to be a line drawn somewhere :-)

It also made konqueror's design a lot more complex, for a not very
useful feature.

(You might think: let's not embed the full konqueror but just one of
its views, like the icon view, but that is not possible, since
koshell is a very stupid koffice mainwindow, does nothing but embed parts,
whereas the konqueror mainwindow does _a lot_).

> To create a "look and feel" similar to the
> one you'd like to have, just launch all apps on one desktop and use mosfet's
> kasbar applet for kicker :)

Very good point ;-)

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