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List:       koffice-devel
Subject:    Re: Presentation duration display
From:       Karl-Heinz Zimmer <khz () kde ! org>
Date:       2004-04-30 12:20:32
Message-ID: 200404301420.38455 () postmaster ! bugcops ! org
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Am Freitag, 30. April 2004 14:11 schrieb Brad Hards:
> On Fri, 30 Apr 2004 19:12, Karl-Heinz Zimmer wrote:
> > Am Freitag, 30. April 2004 10:58 schrieb Brad Hards:
> > > I've become annoyed with the time display in the presentation
> > > duration dialog.
> > >
> > > If you aren't familiar with it, see screenie at
> > > http://www.cuneata.net/duration.png
> > >
> > > Slide time shouldn't be localised IMHO - it makes no sense to have a
> > > duration of 12:00:04am
> >
> > ACK.  To me this looks like a bug.
> >
> > > I'm thinking just a straight display in seconds, or perhaps minutes
> > > and seconds. The total could be in hours, minutes and seconds if I
> > > can find some way to display it - my concern is over translation. I'm
> > > not sure what the impact is going to be yet.
> > >
> > > I'm also thinking that we shouldn't display a time for slides that
> > > were disabled (and hence not shown in any case). Either don't display
> > > them at all, or have the name with i18n("disabled") next to it.
> > >
> > > Thoughts?
> >
> > Perhaps the disabled slides could be shown in another color?
> > kind of 'grayed out'?
>
> I tried ->setEnabled(false) but the visual effect was bad, because it
> grays the background. That looks confusing with some of the backgrounds
> in grey, some in white, and no correlation with the foreground. I think
> it is cleaner not to display times for slides that weren't in the actual
> presentation.

The following is just my personal preference and of course others might
see it differently:
I would prefer to still see the disabled slides there.

Perhaps putting the duration values of these slides into round brackets
would look better?

something like:

    00:00:30
    00:00:30
   (00:00:00)
    00:00:30

Karl-Heinz
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Karl-Heinz Zimmer, Senior Software Engineer, Klarälvdalens Datakonsult AB
<mailto:khz@klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se>            <mailto:khz@kde.org>

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and 
wrong.
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