KApplication::cut()....

[Benjamin Meyer]

On Thursday 22 September 2005 7:45 am, Scott Wheeler wrote:
> On Thursday 22 September 2005 13:30, Benjamin Meyer wrote:
> >   KApplication has a number of built in convenience editing slots.  cut,
> > copy, paste, clear, and selectAll.  Grepping through some of the kde
> > source I wasn't able to find any applications that actually were using
> > it.  Does anyone know where it is used?  Assuming it is used, then I
> > would like to suggest moving them to KMainWIndow, but if they aren't used
> > then I would say just getting rid of them.
>
> They're used both in JuK and KSig (granted, I wrote both of them plus those
> methods in KApplication).
>
> Really I'd like to see that style of usage used much more widely.  It's a
> whole lot easier to implement application-wide cut (or copy, paste, etc.)
> with:
>
> KStdAction::cut(kapp, SLOT(cut()), actionCollection);
>
> Than to implement special-casing all over the application.
>
> -Scott

Yah they looked like good ideas and was a little surprised that I couldn't 
find anything looking through several of the modules.  What do you think of 
moving them to KMainWindow?

-Benjamin Meyer

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