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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: KDialogBase / KMessageBox
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () suse ! de>
Date:       1999-11-05 18:04:26
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On Fri, 05 Nov 1999, Graham TerMarsch wrote:
> Lars Knoll wrote:
> > On Fri, 5 Nov 1999, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> [.....snip.....]
> > > Well.. yes.. but... All other KDE dialogs will be based on KDialogBase.
> > > With KMessageBox based on QMessageBox it will deviate in style from our
> > > other dialogs.
> > >
> > > I would like to introduce dialogs with a "Don't show this message
> > > again" checkbox. With KDialogBase this is very simple. With QMessageBox
> > > this seems to be impossible.
> > 
> > Just one remoark. I hate these "don't show this message again"
> > checkbox. Once you click on it, there is now way to get the message
> > box back again, in case you change your mind. That annoyed me already a
> > few times under windows, or with the submit warning of netscape.
> 
> I'll agree that it can be incredibly annoying for an application to let you no
> longer see a message and then have no way to get it back.  Don't know how many
> of you have tried VMWare, but they at least provided an option to "Show all
> tips" which removed all of the "don't show me this again" flags for all of
> their tips dialogs.  Was a nice touch as I could then get them back after
> having forgotten what they were....

We can have a "Show all messages again" option somewhere.

Cheers,
Waldo

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