Removal of KEdit

Waldo Bastian bastian at kde.org
Sun Apr 20 17:52:39 BST 2003


On Sunday 20 April 2003 17:41, Jason Keirstead wrote:
> On April 20, 2003 12:35 pm, Neil Stevens wrote:
> > 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!
>
> Its not a second find dialog. The one in KEdit is used *ONLY* by kedit.
> Look at the sources, its in the kedit headers. It is not even in the kdeui
> docs.

Is there any particular reason why the new find dialog hides the initial 
search dialog and shows a "Find next?" dialog after the first search? Why not 
keep the initial search dialog around?

Cheers,
Waldo
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