kwin's kcmodules

[Cristian Tibirna]

On Tuesday, 16 July 2002 05:08, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
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> > Still, I don't understand why and when the many dcop calls to
> > "reconfigure" became necessary. (see
> > kdebase/kwin/kcmkwin/kwinoptions/{main.cpp, windows.cpp,mouse.cpp} etc.).
> > Wasn't there a centralized mechanism in the kcontrol API that made the
> > config propagation automatic at th pushing of the "apply" button?
>
> each tab is now a seperate control panel. so now each needs to call
> reconfigure when the user is done with it....

This doesn't explain the "reconfigure" dcop calls. They are separate control 
panels, they have separate ::save() methods, they inherit (separately) the 
kcm API. They should all get the default KControl functionality without the 
dcop hacks.

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