Deprecation of KApplication::invokeBrowser()

[Matt Rogers]

On Thursday 10 June 2004 05:27 am, Waldo Bastian wrote:
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> On Thu June 10 2004 04:57, Matt Rogers wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'd like to suggest the deprecation of the KApplication::invokeBrowser
> > functions in favor of KRun::runURL since the latter uses the KDE settings
> > for default browser and such.
> >
> > The following patch accomplishes the above. Comments are welcome and
> > appreciated.
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> I think that's a bad idea, better fix KApplication::invokeBrowser to handle
> the default browser.
>
> Cheers,
> Waldo
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Would you mind explaining why this is a bad idea? Obviously, the easiest way 
to fix KApplication::.invokeBrowser is just to duplicate the necessary parts 
from KRun:runURL. Why not just deprecate KApplication::invokeBrowser, mark it 
for removal for KDE 4, and avoid the possible code duplication?

Matt