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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: Fwd: Re: KMail annoyance
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-12-13 14:50:58
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On Sat December 13 2003 11:57, Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Saturday 13 December 2003 16:38, Alexey Arzamasov wrote:
> > On Saturday 13 December 2003 08:34, Till Adam wrote:
> > > In short, I think the feature is fine and not annoying, provided
> > > the word "patch" is removed from the default word list. Developers
> > > can easily add it again.
> >
> > They may say that the word "patch" was the main cause of having this
> > functionality :)
>
> Well, Till is a developer. ;-)
>
> > Actually, user can switch it off without searching through the config
> > dialogs - when it triggers you can disable it at the place by
> > checking the "do-not-annoy-me" checkbox.
>
> The dialog had such a checkbox for a very short time. But it was removed
> again because it doesn't work correctly since the dialog remembers your
> last decision. (All dialogs with a "do-not-annoy-me" checkbox do this.)
> So if you checked the checkbox _and_ selected Add Attachment (or
> whatever the button is called) then the next time the dialog would have
> to be shown automatically "Add Attachment" would be assumed as the
> user's answer and therefore the user would be trapped in an endless
> loop (until he either adds an attachment or removes any occurrence of
> the "attachment" keywords from his message).

This can be easily overcome by manually checking with 
"KMessageBox::shouldBeShownYesNo()" before calling the messagebox and then 
not making the KMessageBox call at all if it should not be shown.

Cheers,
Waldo
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bastian@kde.org -=|[ KDE: K Desktop for the Enterprise ]|=- bastian@suse.com
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