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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: The filedialog, please read
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date:       1999-11-05 9:31:18
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Waldo Bastian wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 04 Nov 1999, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> > weis wrote:
> >
> > > This proves something else:
> > > The GUI if the dialog was so bad that the user did not find the switch
> > > himslef :-)))
> > >
> > > Sorry, could not resist :-)
> > >
> > Sure, the icon is crap. But noone did something new ;(
> > But what do you try to proove? Would you add a fat label
> > "switch to single click here"?
> 
> It shouldn't use double click as default in the first place.
> In the control center you can add a switch "use double click".
> And then all of KDE will use double clicks.
> 
> Using double clicks in a file dialog only is inconsistent and deserves a
> place in the user interface hall of shame.

OK, did you ever program a widget in Qt 1.44 that used single click
correctly? I don't know why you come up with this NOW - this file
dialog is this way since 1.0 beta4. I'm really pissed!

Greetings, Stephan

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