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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: autorun?!
From:       Troels Tolstrup <troels () tolstrup ! org>
Date:       2003-08-24 22:35:53
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On Sunday 24 August 2003 17:54, Esben Mose Hansen wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 August 2003 15:22, Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > > 2. display a dialog giving the user some intelligent choices. e.g. is
> > > user inserts an audio cd, detect the insertion and allow him/her to
> > > start a burning application stored on the hard disk or a cd playing
> > > application.
> > >
> > > imho 2 is a far better course of action.
> >
> > I'd say make it a passive popup, so the user can ignore it and it will
> > go away automatically.
>
> Please make it passive :-D Focus-grabbers are not a good thing.... IMO,
> at least.

I don't really think a passive popup is suited in this case.

I think a normal dialog box is a good thing because:

You can easily close it as it has normal window decorations
It looks like a window, not like a grey box
It isn't closed when you click on it
It doesn't go away automatically after a while.

(I know the two latter can be changed, but that will make it act differently 
from most of the other passive popups the user will encounter, which i dont 
think is good)

I also think the passive popups are mainly supposed to be used to present 
information that is not important enough to warrant a normal modal popup 
dialog, but in this case i see it more like a program/wizard that is 
started.

And no, i generally don't like focus grabbers either, but i think this will 
be most user friendly if it acts like a dialog box/program :)

Mvh
Troels
 
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