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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Word-wrap in message boxes.
From:       Thomas Zander <zander () planescape ! com>
Date:       2002-01-16 20:03:06
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On Wed, Jan 16, 2002 at 03:07:06PM +0100, Mariusz Pekala wrote:
> On Tue 15 January 2002 12:30, David Faure wrote:
> > I agree, and I volunteer to implement "squeezing single words (e.g. URLs)
> > if longer than the max size for the dialog" in KWordWrap (as well as a mode
> > for "only word-wrap at spaces" - it currently wraps at any punctuation
> > sign, since this is necessary for desktop icons.
> >
> > KWordWrap requires the caller to give a maximum size in pixels - I guess we
> > could easily guess it from the desktop resolution (e.g. half of the desktop
> > width as a maximum).
> 
> It may be user preference - Percentage of desktop width: 50%, 100% or 
> whatever... 

The more you make configurable the worse the usability gets of KDE as a whole.
Please think before you make/suggest configurable. It is totally stupid to 
make this configurable in the first place!

-- 
Thomas Zander                                            zander@earthling.net
The only thing worse than failure is the fear of trying something new

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