Behavior change in KPageDialog/KPageWidgetItem

[Anders Lund]

On Monday 01 October 2007, Matthias Kretz wrote:
> On Monday 01 October 2007, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > IMHO thats a good idea, after all almost all katepart-using apps use the
> > "Configure Editor" item in the Settings menu. So Kate having "Configure
> > Editor" and "Configure Kate" would keep consistency even.
>
> 1. One reason why apps have two Configure... entries is because the
> developers didn't know how to get it all into one dialog
>
> 2. Kate is an editor. So seeing the two entries
> Configure Kate...
> Configure Editor...
> is just like looking at
> Configure...
> Configure...
> for everybody that is not familiar with components. Sure as somebody who
> knows that kate has a KPart and a shell I can make a good guess where to
> look, but even then I can't really know if it's a feature of the editor
> part or the shell that I want to change.
>
> IMHO all configuration pages need to be in one dialog. If the dialog gets
> bigger than a few pages it should have some kind of search functionality.

... and some sort of grouping (like a tree view) organizing the pages into 
logical groups...

And I couldn't agree more :-)

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Anders

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