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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: A simple place for complex settings, KOffice-wide
From:       Jaroslaw Staniek <js () iidea ! pl>
Date:       2007-01-09 21:11:57
Message-ID: 45A4051D.6050302 () iidea ! pl
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Thomas Zander said the following, On 2007-01-09 21:54:
> On Tuesday 09 January 2007 19:49, Jarosław Staniek wrote:
>> If that's ok to you, it will be no problem to reuse the dialog in other
>> KOffice apps once it is present in Kexi 2.0 sometime this year.
> 
> This is not something I want to see in at least KWord, and I'd feel bad if it 
> were in other KOffice applications.
> 
> As I stated before; the koproperty library is something that is not usable for 
> the target audience of KOffice.

Whether it's implemented using koproperty or WINAPI or Flake or 
FooBarMetaProgramming, it does not matter, the proposal is about functionality 
so do not use the points from a different thread.

The fact is that Konqueror-like bloat makes people feel lost (e.g. the the 
bloated QLayouts still cannot be displayed on my 1280x800 screen, BTW). Adding 
cascading modal dialogs is not an option for me. I try to remove most of 
dialogs anyway.
Look at Linux forums how people have trouble locating even simple settings 
because these are covered by nearly useless options.

Regarding Stefan's note, it's even better to have the about:config GUI highter 
in the KDE hierarchy, so apps with more complex settings can also take 
advantage of that.

-- 
regards / pozdrawiam, Jaroslaw Staniek
  Sponsored by OpenOffice Polska (http://www.openoffice.com.pl/en) to work on
  Kexi & KOffice: http://www.kexi-project.org, http://www.koffice.org
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