Review Request: Replicate the existing KConfigDialog constructor and change one argument type

[David Faure]

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> "The kdeui module is unlikely welcome on mobile platforms"

Why is this review about adding stuff to kdeui, then? I don't get it. Either you're using it or you're not using it -- or the real reason is core/gui split in your libs/apps, which would be a valid point.

- David Faure


On Jan. 17, 2012, 3:54 p.m., Laszlo Papp wrote:
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> (Updated Jan. 17, 2012, 3:54 p.m.)
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> Review request for kdelibs and Jeremy Paul Whiting.
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> Description
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> Use case: there are applications like kanagram which would be nice to have
> running on several platforms, like handsets; for instance Harmattan on N9. It
> would be nice to use the same settings code generation in certain cases for all
> the platforms since the additions of KConfigSkeleton on the top of
> KCoreConfigSkeleton are the font and color settings. These are currently not
> used in many KDE applications. Hence, it should not be mandatory. The kdeui
> module is unlikely welcome on mobile platforms, especially in appstores with
> its sizes and complexity for no real need.
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> KConfigDialogManager has apparently already two constructors; one with
> KConfigSkeleton argument type, and yet another with KCoreConfigSkeleton. It
> looks like a situation where the KCoreConfigSkeleton version was added later.
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> KConfigDialog does not have a constructor yet with KCoreConfigSkeleton argument
> type yet; it has probably somehow been missed so far. Changing the current
> constructor to KCoreConfigSkeleton usage is not possible in the 4.X major
> version because of the consequences (ABI breakage). Thereby, the freshly
> replacated constructor. The proper fix can be filed against frameworks where
> there is only one, and properly working constructor.
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> Diffs
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>   kdeui/dialogs/kconfigdialog.h 2ac0eda 
>   kdeui/dialogs/kconfigdialog.cpp e815e54 
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> Diff: http://git.reviewboard.kde.org/r/103716/diff/diff
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> Testing
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> On Archlinux (build test only)
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> Thanks,
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> Laszlo Papp
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