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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] Usability help needed for KPilot
From:       Reinhold Kainhofer <reinhold () kainhofer ! com>
Date:       2003-04-16 22:47:18
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On Wednesday 16 April 2003 23:10, Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> While reworking the KPilot conduit selection dialog (again - why didn't
> anybody ever mention QCheckListItem before? It's been around since Qt 3.0
> at least), I ended up with the dialog layout shown at
> http://www.cs.kun.nl/~adridg/snapshot10.png (17k). It's ugly. Things are OK
> without the command buttons (enable all, disable all, configure) and I
> wonder what would be best: (a) ditch them because they don't provide
> additional functionality (you could check all the boxes individually, and
> double-click already does a configure on the selected conduit) 

That's not true. Have you ever tried to work without a mouse? The buttons 
should also get keyboard shortcuts so that you don't need a mouse for the 
dialog at all. Removing the buttons is not an option.
How about aligning them horizontally below the list?

Second, the explanations for the conduits should be shorter than in your 
screenshot. IMO, the multi-line explanations look worse than the buttons on 
the right.

Reinhold

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