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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: KDE 3.2 feature
From:       "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-09-13 0:41:15
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On Friday 12 September 2003 05:05, Troels Tolstrup wrote:
> On Friday 12 September 2003 19:40, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > still, the window decos that emulate other systems that made the "double
> > click closes" mistake (Redmond, CDE, etc...) preserve this behaviour. so
> > you could always use one of those ... or, you could patch whatever window
> > deco you use. it's a very simple 30 second patch.
>
> Isn't this even worse? Now not only is the feature still present, but only
> sometimes, without giving the user any clue what so ever. I don't know
> about you, but when i change visual styles, i still expect things to work
> the same way, only look slightly different. Whats next, disable the task
> bar if you choose the mac menu mode? :-)

if you haven't noticed, different kwin decos already do behave differently. 
they have done so since they were introduced in their current form in KDE2. 
B2 is probably one of the most divergent with several special behaviours. 
behavioural diversity is one of the benefits (plagues? ;) of having a C++ 
plugin based system.

a window decoration isn't just visual style, it's operational as well. this 
allows KDE to behave very closely to other systems as well as innovate new 
optional behaviours.

> IMO it would make much more sense to either get rid of it globally, or make
> it an option instead and let the user decide.

an option for a specific click behaviour on a single button in one part of the 
interface would be rediculous. this is exactly the sort of microconfiguration 
that will lead to (KDE.currentOptions() *= KDE.currentOptions()), with all 
the collateral damage that comes along with that.

- -- 
Aaron J. Seigo, who loves having this conversation every 2-3 weeks
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