Any plans for a alpha3 release with KDE3.1 final?

John Firebaugh jfirebaugh at kde.org
Sat Dec 14 22:01:02 UTC 2002


On Saturday 14 December 2002 7:23, Harald Fernengel wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Friday 13 December 2002 18:54, John Firebaugh wrote:
> > On Friday 13 December 2002 2:57, Harald Fernengel wrote:
> > > * fix Kompare so that you can open more than one diff
> >
> > Why don't you just make the diff view just like any other document
> > instead of forcing it to be an output widget? Then allow opening any
> > number of differences, each in a separate instance of the kompare part.
>
> because then you can't view the diff and the document at the same time. I
> have the idea that you can just click on a part of a diff, then gideon
> jumps to the right position, you read the code, press space to apply the
> selection, edit it, go to the next patch and so on.

But the fact that you can't view two documents at the same time is a defect of 
the IDEAL UI mode, not of kompare. It would be far better to support 
splitting/arranging documents than to make a special case out of this 
example.

-John




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