Hmm, I don't remember seeing any mail on any of the lists about uglifying KDE code. What should be the point of this commit, besides making cvs annotate worse and offending a bunch of those people whose coding style you have changed without asking them? Doing such things is never a good idea.

Reviewed by? Approved by? IMHO it's very disrespectful to go touching people's coding style without asking for their OK. And wholesale commits in kdelibs are just utterly risky.

You broke rule 8 of the little rules we have for KDE CVS: http://developer.kde.org/policies/commitpolicy.html#8 I disabled your CVS write access and I won't enable it for another two weeks. You're still welcome to contribute to KDE CVS, but you will have to do so using patches for the time being.

What hasn't really been said is why we all object to this.

Changes like "== QString::null" -> "isNull()" are accepted, because they make things a tiny bit faster without hurting readability.

But changes like

- while ( ( wdg = it.current() ) != 0 ) {
+ while ( ( wdg = it.current() ) ) {

don't make it faster, and do hurt readability (the changed line looks to me like it might be a typo for wdg == it.current(), whereas the original line didn't have that problem.

Same thing for myint == 0, this is more readable than !myint, when the int can take several values and we're only testing against 0 here, but maybe 1 and 2 later on. There is nothing to gain by writing !myint here, only loss of readability.

Some people might be able to read !myint and to notice the double parenthesis in the above while loop. Good for them. But that's no reason to make it harder for the others by changing the existing kdelibs code.

The highlights of this release are a number of bug fixes, updated documentation and various usability/cosmetic fixes since the beta1 release. The scheduled release for 0.7 stable is this weekend (Nov 7). The primary reason for this release is to give translators enough time to update the translations (the string freeze has been in effect since Oct 31).

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