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List:       kde-look
Subject:    Re: KDE Standards - Menus - Options
From:       Stefan Taferner <taferner () salzburg ! co ! at>
Date:       1999-09-23 6:13:56
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On Wed, 22 Sep 1999, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> Hiya,
> 
> I will give some of my views about the new KDE UI Guidelines.
> I try to stick with one subject per e-mail so you will see some more mails of me :-)
> 
> KDE Standards - Menus - Options
> =========================
> 
> I am not sure if options should be saved manually or not.
> 
> _IF_ they are to be saved manually, the application should ask the user whether he wants
> to save his/her settings (if he/she hasn't done so) when he/she quits.

I have problems with applications that ask strange questions when they are
supposed to quit. The only situation when this is IMO appropriate is when the
changes in the document would be lost.

Unsaved settings should open such a dialog.

> It would be nice if some detection could be added which checks whether another
> application has changed the settings in the mean-time.

Possible behaviour is:
a) merge the settings or 
b) simply replace the settings or
b) just not save them or
d) ask the user?

IMO d) is the worst alternative. a) probably does not work for all cases, as
the result is likely to be broken.

Kind regards,
Stefan

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