KRecentFilesAction improvement

[Nicolas Goutte]

On Monday 18 July 2005 20:39, 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 :(

If it breaks KOffice, somebody should check KHexEdit too. I had just fixed it 
a few weeks ago by using KOffice code. So probably it is again broken now. 
:-(

(Sorry I have not time int the next few weeks to test or even to fix it 
myself.)

Have a nice day!

>
> 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...