KRecentFilesAction improvement

Andras Mantia amantia at kde.org
Mon Jul 18 20:52:21 BST 2005


On Monday 18 July 2005 21:39, David Faure wrote:
> On Sunday 22 May 2005 20:48, Andras Mantia wrote:
> > On Sunday 22 May 2005 17:58, David Faure wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 10 May 2005 13:02, Andras Mantia wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > >  I suggest the following improvement for KRecentFilesAction: be
> > > > able to specify a nice name for the entries when an URL is
> > > > added. Useful in case of projects, but also for single files as
> > > > well. If such a name is specified the entry will look like:
> > > > Name [url]
>
> This change broke the "recent files" dialog in koffice, which shows
> broken icons with no texts now. The reason is that it parses the
> [RecentFiles] group itself, and treats every FileN entry as a url,
> which it's not anymore. Behavior compatibility is as important as
> binary compatibility :(
>
> Well, too late to back down now, I'll fix the parsing in koffice;
> just something to keep in mind later: it's hard to know what exactly
> will be broken by changing the format of a KConfig file...

I'm really sorry about it. The reason I posted the patch was to get some 
feedback in case it may broke something, but aside of you nobody cared 
for a long time (more than a month between posting here and the 
commit).  Yes, I admit the commit was slightly different.
 

Andras

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