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[Leo Savernik]

Am Montag, 15. Oktober 2007 schrieb Andreas Hartmetz:
> > And after each minor upgrade, you do it again, don't you?
>
> I can't remember such an occasion - that doesn't mean that much...

The prime example which is driving me nuts is the new mail toolbar button in 
kmail. For KDE 3.3 (or 3.4?) they decided to make the composer window 
displayed by "new message" not automatically contain the address of the 
current mailing list any more. Instead, they introduced a new action "new 
message to mailinglist" -- hidden by default.

Well, for usability reasons I ripped out "new message" in favour of "new 
message to ml".

This setup work wonderfully until I installed KDE 3.4 (rc version upgrade)!
I customised the action again.
For 3.5, it was reset again (rc version upgrade)!
I customised the action again.
Around 3.5.5, it was reset again (rc version upgrade because of limited 
feature additions)!
I customised the action again.

For this reason, I refrain from customising any other toolbar button and go 
with the default layout. That's why I'm also very picky about toolbar button 
removals. You effectively can't add them back without having to readd them 
again and again and again during the whole life cycle of the major release.

Basic message: You cannot reliably customise KDE toolbars! Any changes will be 
occasionally reset during rc-version upgrades!

mfg
	Leo