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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Gnome Article on UI Design on /.
From:       Hadacek Nicolas <nhadacek () cea ! fr>
Date:       2002-04-23 13:56:17
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I've done some work in this area that I intended to put as RFC on the list 
tonight :)
stay tuned (it does not address all the points but ...)

impatient people can have a look at kdegames/kmines/generic/gsetting.*

cu,
Nicolas

Le Mardi 23 Avril 2002 14:30, Oswald Buddenhagen a écrit :
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 12:13:05PM +0200, Alexander Kellett wrote:
> > Which reminds me. I'd agree here but for one thing, windows has a
> > nice gui regedit program. How about adding one to KDE but going one
> > step better? - by adding comments to all the configure options.
>
> i'm very much in favor of such thing.
> but i'd formalize the comments, so they can be parsed and used for
> automatically generating a frontend. every field would have a type (int,
> float, string, bool, enum, file, url, font, color, etc...). for enums
> the possible values (words) would be listed; for numerical values a
> valid range, etc.  the default would be documented as well.
> you may look at kdm/kfrontend/genkdmconf.c for something remotely
> related.
>
> greetings

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