Removing "Custom pages" feature from KOrganizer

[Amanda Myers Johnson]

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On Tue, Mar 5, 2024, 11:46 AM Volker Krause <vkrause at kde.org> wrote:

> On Montag, 4. März 2024 09:06:10 CET Daniel Vrátil wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I just saw a bug report that "Edit with Qt Designer" button in
> KOrganizer's
> > "Custom Pages" settings dialog doesn't work. The button actually works
> for
> > me, but it made me realized that even after all those years I don't
> > actually know or understand what this settings page is supposed to do...
> >
> > After reading the code I *believe* it's suppose to let you add a new
> custom
> > UI into the incidence editor so that you can have UI for custom
> > X-KORGANIZER-* properties in incidences.
>
> Exactly.
>
> > The only way this could IMO work would be with QUiLoader, but I only
> found a
> > single reference to it, and that's in the settings page code and there
> are
> > no references to the configuration outside of the settings page's code.
> >
> > So, since this feature apparently doesn't work *for years* without anyone
> > complaining, is there are any reason to fix  it and keep it, or are we OK
> > with removing it?
>
> This looks like a "because we can" feature from 25 years ago to me, from a
> time when we were dealing with iCal files that only lived on your local
> computer and you could actually rely on nothing else messing up your
> custom
> properties.
>
> IIRC KAddressBook had a similar feature, which was also removed for
> similar
> reasons.
>
> Regards,
> Volker
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