On Sun, 30 May 1999 Carsten Pfeiffer wrote:

>> * kmsgbox (QMessageBox)
>
>the only thing (IMHO) in KMsgBox is the question mark-icon. In
>QMessageBox, there is only "Information", "Warning" and "Critical" and
>"About". An icon with a question mark is quite useful, sometimes. 

message box types are already heavily misused _now_. There are
several 'critical' message boxes in KDE which are not critical
at all, e. g. for malformed urls. One kind more only adds to more
inconsistency. A question mark is quite senseless in a message box,
as _every_ message box with more than one button asks a question.
This is probably also the reason why this kind of box is meanwhile
discouraged in Microsoft's style guide.

Bernd.