Time to update the style guide?

[Jason Keirstead]

While browsing the style guide, I came across two areas that to me, seem quite out
of date with how KDE operates.

Windows -

The windows portion of the style guide makes quite a big deal ( goes on for about 1.5
pages! ) about how MDI == bad, SDI == good, and "KDE uses SDI".

However, assuming that you take these to be their literal translations ( as in, this includes
"tabbed" MDI interfaces as well as windowed ones ), KDE does not use SDI exclusively at
all. In fact, quite a few core KDE apps ( Konqueror, Kate, Konsole ) as well as others ( Quanta,
KDevelop, Kopete, KSIrc ) use MDI interfaces either via tabbing, MDI windowing, or both.

Now, I am *totally* not deriding these applications' interfaces.. in fact, I *love* tabbed UIs.
I just think that the style guide should properly reflect the reality of KDE development... that
MDI is quite acceptable with the right implementation.

Systray -

This one is more minor than the first. The systray guidelines state that "Right clicking will show a
popup menu with at least a quit and a configure option. " Now, I can name a few core apps
that don't have "Configure" in their systray menu... KWallet,  KMix... 

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