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[Ingo Klöcker]

On Tuesday 16 October 2007, Leo Savernik wrote:
> 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.

This was done in response to the out-cry of several KDE developers who 
sent private messages to mailing lists because of this very nice 
feature.


> 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".

I did the same and, in fact, that's exactly why we added this action.


> 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.

Same here except that for me it broke even more often so that I also 
finally gave up. I had pretty much the same experience with Konqueror.


> 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!

So we need some diff/patch support for the uirc files either for version 
upgrades or for the difference between the original uirc file and the 
user's uirc file.


Regards,
Ingo
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