>Haven't been around much lately, but school is letting out soon
>and it
>seems progress is picking up for R14.
>
>Kick-Off has been causing problems on and off for my desktops
>since
>inception. I did quite a bit of work last year to simplify it, but
>now
>the hard-drive parsing (the most ugly piece of code i've seen) has
>caused problems again. This is due to a questionable amount of
>parsing
>doesn't seem to work correctly everwhere.
>
>I digress.
>
>A good solution would be to 1) remove kickoff since it's unlikely
>that
>it is used, and doesn't keep in the style of trinity and port the
>cool
>features of kickoff into the original kicker panel, if there are
>any.
>2) integrate tde's hw library with kickoff so isn't relying on a
>bad
>hack
>
>I'd be willing to do both, what do you guys think?
I've used the kickoff style menu in both Trinity and KDE4.
Personally I don't like the kickoff menu but my opinion counts as
only one vote.
Considering the bugginess of the Trinity version, and overall
Trinity philosophy, I prefer dropping the feature. Posing the same
question to the user's mail list probably is a good idea before
deciding.
If we decide to keep kickoff then I request we add a build option
to tdebase/CMakeLists.txt so packagers can have the final say.
Darrell