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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: another suggestion for KFileDialog (access to location label)
From:       Emily Ezust <yoamwmvs () umail ! corel ! com>
Date:       2000-01-13 15:34:18
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Hi Stephan,
Can you explain why this could cause inconsistency?

From the point of view of the user of the class, flexibility and access
is always good. From the point of view of the UI designer, a little
redundancy is good so long as it is not obnoxious. And from the
point of view of the users, it is an extra cue to remind them what
they are doing - that they didn't hit the Open or Save As... button,
or whatever.

Stephan Kulow wrote:
> Emily Ezust wrote:
> > Another suggestion to debate:
> > Let's say I'd like to pop up a KFileDialog using getExistingDirectory()
> > or getOpenFileName(), but I want to change the string "Location:"
> > to "Destination" or "Extract to", or whatever. I believe I'd have
> > to subclass KFileDialog just to do this simple thing, but it would be
> > nice to be able to just call a member function.
> >
> > This would involve adding a default parameter to the static member
> > functions with "Location" as default, and adding one public member
> > function for when we build the dialog ourselves.
> >
> > Any thoughts on this?
> >
> No! What is the problem in caption='Extract to' and Location:?
> What we _could_ do is to get the string from a virtual function
> so your subclassing could be easier than rewriting. But allowing
> it as a parameter is overkill and will result in inconsistency.
> 
> Greetings, Stephan
> 
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