A test session with the current kdevelop

[Matthew Woehlke]

Tommaso Massimi wrote:
> On 10/16/06, Andreas Pakulat <apaku at gmx.de> wrote:
>> That is kdelibs code, it hasn't been maintained for quite a while -
>> AFAIK and from what I heard is "not nice to read". Good luck at finding
>> and fixing the bugs without opening new ones.
>>
>> Also note: KMdi is only useful for KDE3 apps, KDE4 doesn't include kmdi.
>> And finally: KDevelop3.4 is not affected by this in its default
>> installation because it uses the simple-ideal mode which doesn't depend
>> on kmdi. This mode is already available in kdevelop3.3, however ideal is
>> still the default because simple-ideal was pretty new when 3.3 was
>> released. So changing from ideal to simple-ideal might solve your
>> problem.
>>
>> Andreas
> 
> In other words,
> this could be an unuseful work.
> 
> I have seen that the simple-ideal mode works fine,
> thanks for the tip, I have already switched to it.
> 
> But why the ideal mode's code has not been removed or
> the interface hidden?

BECAUSE SIMPLE IS BROKEN! At least, it plays poorly with the 'bluecurve' 
style. :-)

Until this is fixed (http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=132460), I for 
one will be VERY annoyed if good-ol'-not-broken-for-me ideal goes away.

> I guess a lot of people will have my same trouble
> and they will be unsatisfied from the ideal interface...

Nope, only problem I've noticed is the left and bottom dock areas can't 
make up their minds which one goes inside the other.

-- 
Matthew
Don't use a hippo to... what was I saying?