Consensus on the kdelibs coding style

[Fela Winkelmolen]

On Sunday 06 July 2008, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> On Sunday 06 July 2008, Fela Winkelmolen wrote:
> > What about the following policy:
>
> ...
>
> > [1] Why the Qt style? Why not? I chose it because it's what is currently
> > suggested on techbase, else we could make a pool to chose the suggested
> > style.
>
> The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from ;-)
> Sorry, SCNR ;-)
>
> While especially the placement of the braces is quite significant for the
> readability of sources IMO (I'm used to braces on there own lines since
> ever, both indented and not indented braces) and one can have a quite hard
> time reading the other style (i.e. the one the developer is not used to),
> this is actually what makes it important to standardize this point.

The problem is that we will quite likely never be able to agree on brace 
placement, so rather than having no standardization at all it's better to say 
that one of the two main styles for brace placement has to be used.

> > Also Qt/K&R style seem to be the only style used that has somewhat
> > been formalized, all other styles could be described as personal style of
> > person X.
>
> There are many detailled coding styles available, if we want a slightly
> more detailled version than the one from Lubos we could go for this one:
> http://www.research.att.com/~bs/JSF-AV-rules.pdf ;-)

I've been unclear, what I actually meant to say is: no other formalized style 
is widely used inside KDE, that I'm aware of anyway.