A test session with the current kdevelop

Matthew Woehlke mwoehlke at tibco.com
Fri Oct 20 20:25:37 UTC 2006


Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 20.10.06 14:29:27, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> Alexander Dymo wrote:
>>> On Friday 20 October 2006 21:20, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>>>> And the direction here 
>>>> seems to be to take away the mode I like for a mode I don't, removing my
>>>> option.
>>> No, we will not remove any KMDI modes in 3.4.
>> I know that, but my impression is that it won't be around forever... 
> 
> Of course not, because kdevelop3.4 is the last kdevelop in the KDE3 line
> as well as KDE3.5 is the last minor KDE release in that line.
> 
> With KDE4 kdevelop4 uses Qt's dockwidgets which provide these things,
> though I'm not sure out of the top of my head how similar they are to
> kmid's ideal mode.
> 
>> which is fine *if* simplified catches up in those few areas I've 
>> mentioned. :-)
> 
> It won't fully catch up I think. kdev3.4 is the last 3.x release and has
> feature freeze on Monday - I doubt Alex can do that much until then.
> Though I sometimes think those guys hack like 100 loc in a minute ;)

Sorry, I should rephrase that... "As long as <whatever KDevelop 4 uses> 
does not represent a step backwards." :-) Or, as long as whatever 
removes kmdi (KDE 4/KDevelop 4) offers a replacement that is not worse 
than kmdi.

-- 
Matthew
When on POSIX, do as POSIX mandates.





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