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