Automatic color chooser

[David Nolden]

Am Sonntag 09 August 2009 10:26:28 schrieb Andreas Pakulat:
> On 09.08.09 09:53:24, David Nolden wrote:
> > Am Sonntag 09 August 2009 02:32:44 schrieb Ben Boeckel:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Would it be possible to make the code that determines colors for
> > > variables in KDevelop to be put into a library? Other applications
> > > that could use automatic color selection could use it (I'm
> > > thinking Konversation right now). Thoughts?
> >
> > That thing is about 100 LOCs, so putting it into a library wold be
> > complete overkill. It's more a case for copy+paste ;-)
>
> No, thats completely wrong. Even if its just 10 LoC's sharing has more
> benefits than copy+paste. I suggest we find a place in kdelibs/kdeui for
> this (or kutils).
Creating a library for 100 LOCs is overkill, makes maintainment more 
complicated rather than easier, and reduces flexibility to a minimum by 
introducing one more API layer in between.

That said, such a class might make sense somewhere in kdelibs/kdeui.

Greetings, David