KDE 3.5 wallpapers removal

Kurt V. Hindenburg kurt.hindenburg at kdemail.net
Wed Sep 28 05:43:45 BST 2005


On Tuesday 27 September 2005 15:09, Kenneth Wimer wrote:
| * David Johnson <david at usermode.org> [Sep 27. 2005 08:21]:
| > On Monday 26 September 2005 11:11 pm, Kurt V. Hindenburg wrote:
| > > Where are these changes discussed?  If I had not been testing the
| > > schemas I would have not noticed these didn't work with Konsole in
| > > KDE 3.5.
| >
| > It was discussed on kde-artists, with a bit of cross-posting here if I
| > recall.
|
| Exactly. I did warn those who wanted to take this out that they should
| be ready to put things back in when a developer screams "but I used that
| in my app!" because it is very hard to know exactly where this stuff is
| used. I would simply remove the schemes because they
| are somewhat outdated, most often a usability nightmarea and, in my
| opinion, ugly. If they are really popular, we could put them somewhere
| else either in Konsole directly or perhaps a special dir for BGs used
| in apps which would be globally accessable.

I moved the 2 wallpapers into Konsole.  A simple way to avoid this would be to 
have done a simple grep of the kdebase/etc to show what apps still used the 
wallpapers.
  Regards,
    Kurt




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