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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Filedialog
From:       Stephan Kulow <coolo () kde ! org>
Date:       1999-11-05 9:53:42
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Espen Sand wrote:
> 
> On fre, 05 nov 1999, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> >Waldo Bastian wrote:
> >>
> >> Hiya,
> >>
> >> Whatever the filedialog is which we use, the current API lacks a way to
> >> specify the title of the filedialog. This results in "Print to File"
> >> giving a "Save as" filedialog. Bad UI, Bad UI.
> >>
> >Haem? [QK]FileDialog is a QDialog and as this has setCaption
> >
> But not the static ones. (eg, KFileDialog::getOpenFileName() etc ) which most
> people use. I can't see any reason why one must make it impossible to set
> a proper caption when using an "easy to use" dialog.
> 
These static methods are just for convenience for 80% of the cases. When
someone needs a special dialog, it's a three liner to call the file
dialog
with a special caption.

Greetings, Stephan

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