KRecentFilesAction improvement

[Andras Mantia]

On Tuesday 19 July 2005 09:17, Helge Deller wrote:
> On Monday 18 July 2005 21:52, Andras Mantia wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Hello Andras,
>
> your patch broke the roaming user support
> (http://lists.kde.org/?l=kde-core-devel&m=105623114512050&w=2), since
> now the file names are not recoded with $HOME any longer, e.g.
> kwordrc:File2=$HOME/PRIVAT/Briefe/lebenslauf.doc
> now became
> 	kwordrc:File2=lebenslauf.doc
> [/home/deller/PRIVAT/Briefe/lebenslauf.doc] which is incorrect if the
> home directory moves...

Ok, I will rework or remove the patch from repository in the following 
days.

Andras
>
> Regards,
> Helge

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