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List:       kde-look
Subject:    Re: Time for a rethink
From:       Carsten Pfeiffer <carpdjih () cetus ! zrz ! tu-berlin ! de>
Date:       2001-05-14 12:34:09
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On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 02:25:22AM +0200, Rolf Magnus wrote:

> I know this from KMail. The first few weeks, I didn't use filters in KMail 
> because I thought that the filter dialog had a bug. I just couldn't type in 
> my filter settings. I didn't have the idea that I _first_ need to add an 
> empty filter and then change it instead of entering my settings an then add 
> them to the list. There are probably more people who don't try to add 
> something before they specified what to add.
> Why not make it the other way, but if the user entered something and then 
> clicks Ok or Apply, either it's auto-added or the user is asked if he wants 
> to add his entry to the list?

that's the solution we used in kcmkisdn back then, but the problem is, we
can't enforce that messagebox popping up directly from kdelibs -- every 
application has to add some support for that.

Cheers,
Carsten Pfeiffer

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