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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Fw: [patch] remove row/columns from table
From:       "Emmanuel Touzery" <emmanuel.touzery () wanadoo ! fr>
Date:       2002-05-24 14:37:32
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sorry, i meant word does *not* even ask for confirmation. not that what word
is doing is so important though.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Emmanuel Touzery" <emmanuel.touzery@wanadoo.fr>
To: <koffice-devel@master.kde.org>
Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 4:33 PM
Subject: Re: [patch] remove row/columns from table


> >Emmanuel;
> >
> >I kind of have a problem with the complete removal of the current select
> >column/row dialog.
> >I think you need some way to do this correctly without just showing a
> simple
> >label.  Maybe a button or radio-button selection 'use selected
column/row'
> which
> >does what your dialog does now.
> >
> >Could you look into this?
> >
> >Thanx.
>
> Well, i was actually thinking that we should maybe have altogether a
> different way of selecting rows/cols, like doing a specific action that
> would obviously select the whole row/column instead of being maybe unclear
> with this definition "a row is selected if one of its cells is", though
> somehow now we are clear.
> but i'm still happy with my patch. why do you want to keep the older
> spinbox? i think the user really doesn't want to hear about row numbers
(and
> it's even more confusing when you have merged cells that span on two
> rows/cols, as you know, and you're always wondering if it's 1- or 0- based
> etc).
>
> additionnally, having a radio button with two options for something as
basic
> as removing a row/col seems to me like over-customizable user interface.
it
> will seem very complicated to new users. word does even ask for
> confirmation!
> maybe the right click menu text should be "remove selected rows" and
"remove
> selected columns" instead of the current option "remove row" and "remove
> column" (IIRC)?
>
> would you like to keep the current behaviour:
> a/ because you think it's better (in which way?)
> b/ because you're afraid to confuse the user (in that case, would my
> proposal to rename the right click menu be enough?)
>
> emmanuel
>

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