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List:       kopete-devel
Subject:    [Kopete-devel] Re: CTRL+ENTER or ENTER?
From:       Matt Rogers <matt.rogers () kdemail ! net>
Date:       2004-01-11 17:42:45
Message-ID: 200401111142.45670.matt.rogers () kdemail ! net
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On Sunday 11 January 2004 11:34 am, Henrique Pinto wrote:
> On Sunday 11 January 2004 15:08, Martijn Klingens wrote:
> > On Sunday 11 January 2004 13:14, Michael Pye wrote:
> > > I think you condemn an awful lot of people with this decision.
> >
> > Well, it wasn't me who wrote the style guide. I use Enter myself,
> > so you shouldn't need to convince me it's more usable.
> >
> > However, those HIG rules are there for a reason, so I really am not
> > going to make Kopete disobey them. You can propose to change the
> > style guide, I'd be all for it (note that many other Kopete
> > developers are not though, I'm speaking for myself here), but the
> > point is that the style guide determines Kopete's behaviour, and
> > nothing else.
>
> Some people here at kde-usability are proposing putting the option to
> use "Enter" in a place more visible, since many users are not likely
> to find it where it is.
>
> Konsidering that Kopete is unusable without at least one configured IM
> account, one good option for KDE 3.3 would be a wizard running at the
> first time the user runs Kopete which would help configuring all the
> needed accounts as well as offer an option to change the default
> keybinding for sending messages to "Enter" (other options could be
> offered as well). What do you think?

There already is such a wizard. Remove your kopeterc 
and .kde/share/apps/kopete/contactlist.xml and run kopete again.

Matt
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