Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4165 mails)

[Derek Fountain <derekfountain@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 17 April 2003 10:07, Nicholas Parsons wrote:
> Hi Chris,
>
> > as a file manager. That right there introduces tons of
> > bugs in the code.
> >
> >>Oh really? I'd be interested in hearing how you came up with that.
> >> >>Considering that being a file manager/browser in the same program
> >> allows a >>significant amount of code to be shared.
>
> I was taught in school to focus on one thing and do it
> well.  The more functionality you add to a program, the
> more code has to be written, etc.  The two ideas are clearly
> separate problems.  I'm not saying you can't share code between
> the two programs, I just don't think they should be lumped
> together in the same program.  Adding more code to any program
> will always introduce more bugs due to probability and
> statistics.

I suspect you're not entirely clued up on the KParts architecture upon which 
Konqueror (and all KDE apps) is based....?

-- 
"...our desktop is falling behind stability-wise and feature wise to KDE 
...when I went to Mexico in December to the facility where we launched gnome, 
they had all switched to KDE3." - Miguel de Icaza, March 2003