Removal of KEdit

Jason Keirstead jason at keirstead.org
Tue Apr 22 23:01:23 BST 2003


On April 22, 2003 01:10 pm, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> On Sunday 20 April 2003 17:22, 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,
>
> But you gain the ability to use something which works already for a long
> time without fancy bleeding edge stuff, which happens to be broken from
> time to time.

The standard find / replace dialog isn't bleeding edge, it has been in the 3.1
branch forever.

-- 
Jason Keirstead, BCS
http://www.keirstead.org




More information about the kde-core-devel mailing list