Proposal for KControl

[Anders Lund]

On Sunday 30 June 2002 13:38, Thomas Zander wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 30, 2002 at 12:12:14PM +0200, Anders Lund wrote:
> > On Sunday 30 June 2002 00:01, Charles Samuels wrote:
> > > Stuff that should just go to its own application, and out of KControl
> > > forever [?]
> > > 	Email
> >
> > For whatever it's worth, I have been looking for somewhere to get that
> > kind of information lately (for Kate), though I have not yet used it. I
> > would like to offer easy insertion of the users fullname, email and
> > "qualified email", like "My Name <me at myemail.org>" into text files.
>
> We use it in KOffice, and take it from the KDE global config.
> You can steal the code from there.
>   koffice/lib/kofficecore    KoDocumentInfoDlg::addAuthorPage()
>
> > So I was looking to use it prior to hearing that it was considered to
> > phase it out...
>
> It is? Nah, probably a mistake somewhere. Since KWord has been using that
> for ages, as does KOrganiser and probably loads of others, even KMail has a
> button to use the KDE global settings :)
> That can't be removed, maybe KMail should play nice in using _and_ updating
> it..

Thank you:)

-anders