Tips to start with editor widget focused and to run kdev from build dir

Andreas Pakulat apaku at gmx.de
Tue May 25 19:13:12 UTC 2010


On 25.05.10 16:45:13, David Nolden wrote:
> 2010/5/21 Alexander Dymo <alexander.dymo at gmail.com>:
> > Anyway, the whole workingset handling should be removed/rewritten.
> > Then the problem would go away naturally. But if you can come up with
> > a fix in a reasonable time, please do it ;)
> 
> Yes wonderful, let's start rewriting stuff instead of fixing once again.
> 
> You still haven't properly explained what's so evil about temporarily
> switching the area while changing the working-set.

Did you try it recently? It looks ugly as it causes a complete repaint
of the whole GUI. And Alex already spent a lot of time on trying to fix
all the repaint/flickering bugs.

> That way, the switching completely relies on _existing_
> infrastructure, instead of having to create additional code-paths. If
> the architecture cannot deal with the switching, then the architecture
> has to be fixed.
>
> And even _if_ the switching is evil, it can be avoided without rewrites.

Then do it. If somebody else rather wants to spend time on rewriting its
his decision to do so.

Andreas

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