A little review of kdecore & kdeui

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Thursday 06 April 2006 20:07, Albert Astals Cid wrote:
> A Dijous 06 Abril 2006 19:43, Charles Samuels va escriure:
> > Frans Englich wrote, on Thursday 2006 April 06 4:02 pm:
> > > A mere suggestion: I would like to see a one-to-one mapping between
> > > file names and class names. For example, that KStatusBar class resides
> > > in KStatusBar.h. It would resemble Qt, and I think it has many
> > > advantages such as that it makes it easier to use. It is less confusing
> > > on where to find what(which C++ already has enough of). KDOM and
> > > KOffice(right? or parts of it?) has it like that.
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I don't see any benefit in using uppercase filesnames, but I do see a
> > disadvantage. I still don't understand why TT did it to Qt.  All it means
> > is that code that compiles on Windows (with filenames that are not case
> > sensitive) may not compile on Linux.
>
> That happens with Qt 3.3 already, at work people do not stop to
> #include <QValueVector.h>
> and works for them and i have to come after and change it to
> #include <qvaluevector.h>
> so that it works for me, so that Qt4 change does not adds up that problem.
> It already exists.

But with filenames all-lower-case the rule is much simpler: just write 
everything in lower case.
This is much easier to get right than the correct CamelCase if the compiler 
doesn't check it.

Bye
Alex
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