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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: KOffice Dialog Box
From:       "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () olympusproject ! org>
Date:       2002-06-19 0:05:39
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On June 18, 2002 02:36 pm, Joseph Manojlovich wrote:
> As I've said before, if the users don't want it, then who are we do
> force it upon them? Eh, forget it... :-)

it's called design and work flow.

> Also, I stand by my assertion that the same dialog should not be used
> in both places. File->New should at most give you a template selection
> dialog, and not give you the option of opening a file. That just makes
> no sense.

SDI vs MDI

> But what does hitting enter even do? This isn't obvious to anybody
> aside from the koffice developers. Does it select the default template?
> Any template? Hitting enter is simple, but the results are unknown to
> most people, including me.

which is why i said it needs to be improved.

> > on the koffice list there was talk about integrating the dialog w/the
> > actual window. i think this could very well solve most of what feels
> > awkward about this dialog: you'd get one window, nothing is modal, it
> > could have more room to explain to just hit enter (or whatever other
> > clevel mech) to move on and the layout could be reworked.
>
> Which list was this on? I'd love to see what was said. :-)

koffice-devel, in the thread that was discussing this very issue.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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