[PATCH] Add back the close buttons to KTabBar/KTabWidget

[Jos Poortvliet]

On Jan 18, 2008 9:48 PM, Olivier Goffart <ogoffart at gmail.com> wrote:
> Le vendredi 18 janvier 2008, Leo Savernik a écrit:
>
> > Am Freitag, 18. Januar 2008 schrieb Thomas McGuire:
> > > On Friday 18 January 2008, Andras Mantia wrote:
> > > > That's not an issue. The problem is if an application written for 4.0.0
> > > > does not work for 4.0.1 and this isn't the case here.
> > > > The other way around happens many times in KDE.
> > >
> > > Really? I hope it doesn't, I have the impression that adding new public
> > > functions to the branches is not allowed, but I might be wrong here.
> >
> > In Qt it's forbidden. In KDE it has always been allowed to add methods to
> > patchlevel releases (at least in the KDE 3 series). I'm not aware of any
> > policy changes regarding this for KDE 4.
>
> I remember we had lot of crash report because of binary incompatibility
> between KDE 3.1.0 and KDE 3.1.1  (Some binary packages were compiled against
> KDE 3.1.1, while their dependence was agains "KDE 3.1") (it was at least the
> case for red hat)  (Yes i know this is a package bug.)
>
> I'd like to change to the policy so that we keep backward and forward BC
> between our patches releases.

I'd say that's a good idea, except that in this case (kde 4.0.1/4.0.2)
changes are gonna be big, and they should be... But if I had a say in
it, I'd be all for it starting from like KDE 4.1.0 ;-)