Prepare for a Feature Freeze

Allen Winter winter at kde.org
Sat Aug 11 14:23:41 BST 2007


On Saturday 11 August 2007 8:51:10 am Peter Penz wrote:
> Hi Rafael,
> 
> On Saturday, 11. August 2007 14:30, Rafael Fernández López wrote:
> > Hey,
> >
> > I will probably need to add a KCategorizedSortFilterProxyModel to
> > kdelibs/kfile, because KDirSortFilterProxyModel (that is already
> > there) will inherit KCategorizedSortFilterProxyModel.
> >
> > By default, categorizing will be disabled, and this class
> > (KCategorizedSortFilterProxyModel) is capable of giving the stuff
> > ordered as it is categorized or not (the order is variable depending
> > if it is categorized or not).
> >
> > Please tell me if I can do so, if not, for 4.0 I won't be able to add
> > the categorization support for Dolphin correctly, and it will be need
> > too many workarounds and hacks.
> 
> For 4.0 we have still have the option to just copy the code from 
> KDirSortFilterProxyModel into kdeapps/dolphin/src. By this we can check 
> whether the interface of KCategorizedSortFilterProxyModel really works. If 
> this is the case, we can cleanup everything in 4.1.
> 
> Moving KCategorizedSortFilterProxyModel into kdelibs now is quite risky from 
> my point of view... I personally think having some code duplication in 
> Dolphin for 4.0 is better than missing the chance to adjust the interface of 
> KCategorizedSoftFilterProxyModel later. So no hack would be required in 
> Dolphin, just some minor code duplication.
> 
Whatever you guys decide to do is fine.
-Allen




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