From kde-devel  Thu May 13 18:51:52 1999
From: Matthias Ettrich <ettrich () troll ! no>
Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 18:51:52 +0000
To: kde-devel
Subject: Re: Applets? [ was: Re: kde mp3 player]
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On Thu, 13 May 1999, Sirtaj Singh Kang wrote:
>On Thu, 13 May 1999, Torsten Rahn wrote:
>[snip]
>> And just to make it clear: I will not help to draw any large
>> toolbar-icon-set with 'maybe-the-user-will-need-this-or-that-icon'.
>> This would be a waste of poor ressources (there are still
>> just a few artists around!).
>
>Well, there's no need to be militant about it. ;) There was talk about
>there being support for netscape-style toolbars, with a caption under the
>icon. With KAction this will become easier to do since every action has a
>user-friendly name associated with it. This name can be used for both menu
>items and toolbar button caption/tooltip, so if you like you could turn
>off icons completely and use just the text (just like netscape). 


An action should also have: tooltip text and a What's This? richtext associated
with it. 

Qt supports What's This? help now for toolbuttons, menu items (yes!) and
accelerators (yes!) :-)

Matthias

>
>-Taj.
>
>Sirtaj S. Kang       taj@kde.org         ssk@physics.unimelb.edu.au
>Univ of Melbourne	
>			"I'm a commercial operating system."
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