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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] kmenuedit enhancment
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2002-02-11 10:35:01
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On Monday 11 February 2002 11:28, Raffaele Sandrini wrote:
> On Sunday 10 February 2002 14:41, David Faure wrote:
> > Ok, but why should that be two menu items then ? Why not offer "Delete"
> > only, which in fact hides the item (NoDisplay=true)?
> > Having a Delete menuitem that tells the user "you can't delete it" sounds
> > a bit useless to me. And if it's for local files only... isn't it enough
> > to offer NoDisplay instead of real deletion - for the sake of a simpler
> > UI?
> 
> Ok, i (re)added now the hidden (hide=true) feature but it will only be used 
> when the item is moved.

Ok - but why is there still a "Delete" button then ?

> I left the hide/unhide because if there is only a delete i have to do 
> something like undelete... because its important to me that the user can 
> reshow his items (NoDisplay=true/false).
Sure.

> Kmenuedit has a simple UI... i think there is no problem with there two new 
> buttons.

I think it's not good UI practice to
* have a delete and a hide button that basically do the same as far as the user is concerned
* show an error message box "You can't delete this item" instead of disabling the delete action
(this problem goes away if there's no more delete button anyway)

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David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
http://people.mandrakesoft.com/~david, http://www.konqueror.org
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