From kde-usability Mon Oct 04 11:30:27 2004 From: =?iso-8859-2?q?Jaros=B3aw_Staniek?= (by way of\ Date: Mon, 04 Oct 2004 11:30:27 +0000 To: kde-usability Subject: RFC: Message Box issues Message-Id: <200410041330.27070.js () iidea ! pl> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-usability&m=109688936328920 Hello, There are two issues: 1. Assume you've got a question message "Do you want to format this partition?" {{Yes}} {No} We can agree, this is really a mix of warning and question. Currently with KDE, it's only required to blindly press Enter key to answer "Yes" for this question because it's highlighted as default. (I've got other cases similar to this within my own application, like Kexi "Do you want to remove this database"). Any of such messages are dangeruos if user is too lazy/bored to think twice :) At least from my experience user lazy/bored users do exist and so quite often. The proposal is to allow programmers to set {{No}} button by default for such cases. This was even already implemented few months before (called Dangerous option for KMessageBox), but now it's removed. 2. Pressing letters as keyboard shortcuts for message boxes. Currently e.g. for buttons {{Yes}} {No} there are keyboard shortcuts : Alt+Y, and Alt+N. The proposal is to add possibility (by default) for presing Y and N keys (accordingly for Yes and No answer), Alt+ shortcut could remain of course. Current behaviour: - is not consistent with Qt-only applications (where Y and N, etc. work) - is not consistent with windows and MacOSX applications behaviour (where Y and N, etc. work) and thus is reported as a reason for annoyance by many former/current users of these -- regards, Jaroslaw Staniek / OpenOffice Polska Kexi Project: http://www.kexi-project.org, http://koffice.kde.org/kexi QT-KDE Wrapper Project: http://iidea.pl/~js/qkw _______________________________________________ kde-usability mailing list kde-usability@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability