Kompare support for patch and difference reviewing

[Niko Sams]

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 03:46, Aleix Pol<aleixpol at kde.org> wrote:
> Hi list,
> As some of you might know right now, I've been trying to get the KomparePart
> to make KDevelop useful for reviewing patches and checking the changes from
> the VCS support. Now I've locally got it to work in an ugly and weird way
> you're not interested in.
>
> Since there are some things I'm not sure of, I'll expose them to you so that
> we can find the best solution.
>
> My first idea was to get the Kompare part to be used as a Document. Looks
> logical and would perfectly fit in a new review area (which could be the
> nowadays test area).
> Problems I see:
> - It's not really suitable to see the differences in places like the the
> history dialog.
The history widget could be shown in a dock view, then a diff as document
would be perfect.

I think we should avoid dialogs whenever possible.

Niko