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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: kpresenter GUI cleanup (2)
From:       Laurent Montel <lmontel () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2002-05-19 8:23:53
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Le Sunday 19 May 2002 08:46, Thomas Zander a écrit :
> 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?

Rarely it's right....

>
> 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?

We reset properties as when dialog was opened

> There are standard dialog box layouts in kdelibs for a reason :)

It's right .....

>
> > Ok I will try to make all this changes today.
> > thanks
> > Regards.
>
> That would be great!

I start now ...

Regards.
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