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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: kpresenter GUI cleanup (2)
From:       Thomas Zander <zander () planescape ! com>
Date:       2002-05-19 6:46:35
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On Sun, May 19, 2002 at 08:30:01AM +0200, Laurent Montel wrote:
> Le Saturday 18 May 2002 14:38, Thomas Zander a ?crit :
> > Lots of good work has been done, thanx Percy!
> > Here is another set of suggestions on fixing usability problems in
> > kpresenter
> >
> > The properties dialog uses the buttons 'ok','reset','apply','close'
> > Looking at the rest of KDE the only place where a reset is used is in
> > kcontrol where it has a special purpose (being in a framework etc)
> > After pressing reset a couple of times when I was aiming for ok I am pretty
> > sure a better solution would be to use the 'ok','apply','cancel' default
> > dialog if at all passible.
> > The reset functionality would then be replaced by the cancel button.
> 
> No cancel button close windows it's not a good idea.
> We must re-open dialogbox.

But all dialog boxes do that. 
All the settings->configure*
In konqueror the edit-properties of a file.
In the print dialog
kpresenter; format->page background and format->page layout

Besides; How often does it happen that you don't agree with anything you 
typed, and want to start again?

Cancel is the default, and close (in that dialog) actually does a cancel, 
but that is not directly obvious since close might as well apply before
the cancel.

In light of this, the reset button is just confusing. For instance; does
it reset the settings to the state the dialog was opened in, or only
since apply was clicked?
There are standard dialog box layouts in kdelibs for a reason :)

> Ok I will try to make all this changes today.
> thanks
> Regards.

That would be great!

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Thomas Zander                                           zander@planescape.com
                                                 We are what we pretend to be

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