Speed and Look.. what comes next.

[Enrico Ros]

On Saturday 03 April 2004 17:17, George Staikos wrote:
> [ ...cut... ] One thing I have heard comments about is the KDE
> file dialog.  I was told that it takes approximately 10 times as long as
> Qt's file dialog to list a large directory (thousands of files).

It sorted out that kfiledialog has the same problems I fixed on 
konqkfmiconview.
Unfortunately, due to the architecture and strict binary compatibility is not 
possible to do something unique for all the file dialogs.. KonqIconViewWidget 
has its interface, KDirOperator integrates different fileviewers inheriting a 
non-widget KFileView so patches must be done on derived classes 
(KFileIconView, KFileDetailView, ...).
But apart from the aesthetics, patches on those 3-4 classes don't sound like 
dirty hacks.
Maybe when KDE4 will be on horizon I can give my 2 cents on modifying this 
framework, to unify things, but since that moment I'm happy going around 
patching the fileviews! ^_^

Expect more patches to review in short.
Enrico