Kaboodle

[Allan Sandfeld Jensen]

On Thursday 28 August 2003 15:50, Charles Samuels wrote:
> With the removal of Kaboodle, Alex and I have been discussing what can
> replace its niche.
>
> The choices are:
> 	1) Kaboodle, it's re-added and maintained by mostly me and hopefully you
> too 2) Noatun with a --kaboodle option
>
> The problem with #2 is that we lose Kaboodle's KPart functionality (which
> may not be a problem, nobody really uses the kpart as far as I know).  Not
> that it is responsible to remove a functionality like that.
>
> One could also kpart Noatun, however, that would definitely require a BIC
> change in noatun (NoatunApp inherits from KApplication-- I'm sorry).  We
> can either break all plugins (not many exist out of CVS), or not have a
> kpart.
>
> But I wouldn't be comfortable with doing a BIC change.  I may not be able
> to work on Noatun much in the near future (university).  I don't want to
> break BIC without being able to fix lots of issues.
>
> Therefore, I recommend we re-add Kaboodle for the time being.
>
Wouldn't the noatun interface "simple" suffice? I think it's says in its 
description that it is embedable.

Anyway it is the best default interface for noatun anyway IMO. Many people 
dont really "get" the multi-window thing.

`Allan