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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Checkboxes and clickable area
From:       "Manuel Amador (Rudd-O)" <amadorm () usm ! edu ! ec>
Date:       2003-02-20 19:27:28
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Eric Christopherson wrote:

>On Sat, Feb 15, 2003 at 02:24:32AM +0100, Carsten Pfeiffer wrote:
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>>Hiya,
>>
>>checkboxes have the habit of being toggled wherever you click on them. Not 
>>just on the actual checkable box, but also on the label. 
>>
>>Using layouts, checkboxes may become very large, the label is simply stretched 
>>to the width dictated by the layout.
>>
>>Imagine a checkbox:
>>
>>[x] Check me
>>|<--                             width                           -->|
>>
>>There is no visual hint where the checkbox ends (you might think it ends, 
>>where the text ends). But clicking anywhere next to the label activates the 
>>checkbox!
>>
>>I find this behavior rather irritating (I accidentally toggled checkboxes, 
>>when I just wanted to give focus to a dialog) and submitted a bugreport to 
>>TT. Unfortunately, that behavior is "Windows compatibility".
>>
Whoever said that is plainly lying.  I'm sitting in front of the 
Multimedia control applet, clicking at the right of the checkbox, and 
absolutely nothing happens.  Perhaps the solution is to place a 
container widget and *inside it* place the checkbox, much a la 
gtkalignment style.

>>
>>We could create a KCheckBox to fix that.
>>
>>Opinions?
>>    
>>
>
>Definitely a good idea. I've always hated that about Windows (but actually
>hadn't noticed it yet in KDE).
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