> Hey all,
>
> For some time I have been working on Kickoff (the alternate panel under
> Kicker). I have resolved a few problems and have created a patch to fix up
> the problems. It closes at least bug 508 and 281
>
> First of all, KNewButton is a terrible and bloated implementation of the
> KButton class, with animations that didn't work or do anything really. it
> does however have things that are required for the kickoff menu.
>
> So I stripped all the crap out of KNewButton and got it to work with the
> same settings that the regular kbutton does. This also fixes a bug with
> transparency that wasn't reported.
>
> Also I fixed the problem with the "computer" tab that was causing a
> endless
> loop.
>
> Once the tree unfreezes I plan on working on kickoff further.
>
> Calvin Morrison

Can you post this to the bug tracker as an attachment?  Until the GIT tree
thaws all patches should be attached to bug reports, and the bug report
marked as patch attached.

Thanks!

Tim