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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] Usability help needed for KPilot
From:       tech () bishop ! dhs ! org
Date:       2003-04-24 3:36:13
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On Thu, Apr 24, 2003 at 01:09:47AM +0200, Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> On Monday 21 April 2003 21:07, Adriaan de Groot wrote:
> > On Monday 21 April 2003 17:24, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> > > When do you want to apply the settings done in the embedded conduit
> > > configure dialogs? The "OK" and "Cancel" buttons just exit the whole
> > > config dialog, and adding three additional buttons (OK, Apply and Cancel
> > > for the conduit's settings) would look pretty bad to me.
> >
> > Right. The idea is that this will eventually not be a dialog, but a page
> > inside KPilot itself. See snapshot9.png (same address) for what I had in
> > mind.
> 
> Muddling forward, 

I like the word muddling.  Please use it more often.

> http://www.cs.kun.nl/~adridg/snapshot1[4567].png

First of all, this gave me a 404.  And are square brackets even legal in
a url?  

> are four shots of what the dialog looks like with "swallowed" configuration 
> dialogs. The code changes in each of the conduits are trivial, just a little 
> class shuffling. I do need to deal with resizing better, though, as you can 
> tell in snapshot16 and 17, where the edges of the swallowed tab widgets 
> becomes invisible.
> 
> Is this a workable setup?

Yeah, I like it.  No fugly multi-rows of buttons, extremely obvious how
to configure it, and (I presume) nice descriptions all around.

Bravo, I say, Bravo!

D.A.Bishop
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