[arch-general] kde4 tip - quicklaunch in your panel -- convenience at your fingertips!

[David C. Rankin]

On Friday 23 October 2009 11:19:28 am David Rosenstrauch wrote:
> > We WILL get the subtree option back at some point in the future. Here is
> > the  relevant post from the suse list:
> 
> Ugh.
> 
> I'm starting to feel like KDE has "jumped the shark".  :-)
> 

If I follow you correctly -- I agree, and when it did, it got a mouth full of 
big, nasty, long, sharp teeth eating its a$$ up... :-)

Honestly, I think it is KDE's programming framework that has caused most of 
the problems. While the kparts toolkits provides an easy framework, it 
inevitably leads to a one size fits all mentality to application design where 
everything is shoe-horned into the chosen framework. Not to mention code bloat 
for smaller apps (did I mention the 285k "hello world" dialog?) It will all 
work once all the 'oopses' have been eliminated, but until then, any weak link 
in the chain really impacts a lot of stuff (thus the teeth adjectives above :)

For fun, see the "hello world" tutorial here:

http://techbase.kde.org/Development/Tutorials#Introduction_To_KDE_4_Programming


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