Timeout for KMessageBox (Was: Patch for KMessageBox)

[Waldo Bastian]

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On Monday 12 May 2003 15:05, Daniel Naber wrote:
> On Monday 12 May 2003 13:42, Reinhold Kainhofer wrote:
> > Is this a functionality that would be handy somewhere else so that it
> > justifies extending KMessageBox?
>
> I think a timeout dialog is just a usability problem in most cases. It
> needs some visual feedback to show users that there is a timeout, but this
> will tell the user to hurry up ("enter you password in 5 seconds or bad
> things will happen").

MacOS X uses it for the logout dialog. If you don't confirm within XXX 
seconds, it will log you out anyway.

I'm not opposed to them in general but I'm not sure in which cases it would 
make sense to use them (the kpilot case seems ok) and how they should behave, 
e.g. which action should be taken after the timeout?

Cheers,
Waldo
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