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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: RFC: change 'Save session for future logins' text.
From:       Oswald Buddenhagen <ossi () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-04-19 11:04:24
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On Fri, Apr 19, 2002 at 10:05:44AM +0200, Thomas Zander wrote:
> I am not sure that will make it any clearer.  As you might know; the
> longer the text, the less people actually read it.
> 
> Besides; the sentence fails to explain what will happen when you
> uncheck the checkbox. The last _saved_ session will be started then at
> next run.
> 
> IMO the dialog is clear about what it does; the concepts it represents
> OTOH are not clear to most users.  You cant explain that in an option
> like this.
> 
this is what i tried to express. :)

> Bottom line; don't change the text. Provide a way from this dialog to
> gain more information on the concept of saving sessions.
>
tooltips? help button?

> Maybe that should be combined with a good session manager dialog that
> allows for multiple sessions to be named/saved.
> 
this is on matthias ettrich's todo list for several months. however, 
it is somewhat tricky (the hard part being interpreting the xsmp spec
correctly :) ).
once he gets it done, i'll try to integrate it with kdm.

greetings

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