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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Edit -> Modify/Change
From:       Steve Hutton <shutton () attbi ! com>
Date:       2003-02-07 8:58:56
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In article <200302061958.24938.aseigo@olympusproject.org>, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
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> On Thursday 06 February 2003 06:35, Steve Hutton wrote:
>> I've noticed that in 3.1 the configuration
>> dialogs for Konqueror now use "Change" on
>> buttons that allow dialog data to be edited.
>> KMail now uses "Modify" for the same purpose.

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> this says to me that we need a new widget that extends KListView and provides 
> for buttons down the left side. just like KDialogBase, these buttons would be 
> turned off/on by passing a set of or'd enums to the ctor ...

That's a very interesting thought.  I hadn't thought about using such
widgets to enforce naming consistancy, but I guess that is one of their
features, isn't it?

> i can't think of a good name for this widget right now because i'm feeling 
> very non-creative today. =( if anyone has a suggestion, pipe up. i volunteer 
> to write such a thing. the only thing i'm concerned about is setting the 
> accels on the buttons since the choice of those really depends on the 
> surrounding widgets and what accels they are using.
> 
> Steve: would you be willing to go through as many KDE configuration dialogs 
> hunting down all instances of this particular widget setup and document the 
> buttons used, the labels on them and the order in which they are placed?

Yes, I will try to take that on this weekend.  I need an excuse to poke
around the corners of 3.1 anyway :-)

Steve

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