Removal of KEdit

Neil Stevens neil at qualityassistant.com
Sun Apr 20 16:35:09 BST 2003


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On Sunday April 20, 2003 08:22, Jason Keirstead wrote:
> On April 20, 2003 11:56 am, Neil Stevens wrote:
> > But how does the feature set of the widget used by the KEdit app have
> > any impact on the user of the KEdit application?
>
> Indeed it does. By not using the standard find and replace dialogs used
> in every other main KDE app, not only do you lose consistency, but you
> lose the ability to use a regexp, or regexp editor, or choose whole
> words only, or choose backwards, all of which is built into the standard
> dialogs.

Then you should have spoken up when the second find dialog was added to 
kdelibs!

By having two in kdelibs, this inconsistency was guaranteed.  Even if you 
go and change every app in CVS to use the new dialog, any app outside of 
CVS that uses it will stay different.

- -- 
Neil Stevens - neil at qualityassistant.com
"The shepherd drives the wolf from the sheep's throat, for which the
sheep thanks the shepherd as a liberator, while the wolf denounces him
for the same act as the destroyer of liberty." -- Abraham Lincoln
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