[Kst] extragear/graphics/kst/src/libkstapp

[Barth Netterfield]

AFAIR, for a while, we misused "padding" (instead of margin).  Padding is 
currently undefined/buggy for legends.  If you ever have padding set to 
anything other than 0, (say through scripts) you will get a borked legend.

We need to maintain compatibility with .kst files saved from official release, 
and we would also like to maintain compatibility with any DR we released.

So we can:
	-in the legend object set padding to zero until someone makes padding do 
something non-broken (put in a FIXME but not a bug - but I can see this 
biting us someday... if ever do fix padding for legends)
	-recognize file version and fix on read (don't think this is possible)
	-fix padding on legends now so it does something non-broken when it is 
non-zero (probably the best thing to do)
	-???? (something else)

But I really don't think that users should have to be fixing our mistakes.

cbn

On Friday 02 June 2006 05:26, George Staikos wrote:
> On Thursday 01 June 2006 14:08, Andrew Walker wrote:
> > There is no way for the user to now set the padding. The user has control
> > only over the _legendMargin. This was probably different in the past and
> > whoever made the change did not consider the repercussions.
>
>   There is via KstScript.  The user can change both.  This is specifically
> why hacking around functionality and design is wrong.  Now matter which way
> it is done, something is "broken".  I would rather we know that old Kst
> files are broken in this respect and tell users to fix it by typing in a
> bit of script or recreating their legends, than have some hacky code in
> there that breaks things down the road (or is removed and brings us right
> back to where we started).