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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: [patch] added a clear-button to minicli
From:       "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-08-31 8:29:07
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On Sunday 31 August 2003 02:01, Martin Koller wrote:
> Oh, come on. We are talking about a combobox widget, not a shell.
> I know CTRL-U in a shell, but not in a text field widget.

this is in all the text fields as well... try it out.

> And a user who is new to Linux/KDE will hardly have used a shell ever
> bevore.

and so they can't figure out how to clear the lineedit?

> And I don't see the problem to add a simple button in a small dialog, which
> has not many buttons in it (so this added one will not overload the
> dialog).

because that button is not very clear in its purpose and keeping dialogs as 
simple as possible is desirable.

the burdon of proof is on your shoulders: what user has troubles because of 
this, exactly? how does the added interface elements make it faster/easier/
more obvious to use for our target audience?

i just don't see enough of an upside to warrant the addition.

> And one could argue, why you then have such a button in konqueror.

as i described in my initial email, that's because konqi's location bar is not 
transient. that said, i'd just as soon see it removed there as well.

> And BTW: I would also like to add such a button in the standard file dialog
> - it's missing there too.

gah... are you kidding? that dialog is already vastly overpopulated... the 
last thing it needs is more widgets that do something that you can already 
do, just in a different way.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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