<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'Segoe'; font-size:10pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">Am Wednesday 25 March 2009 schrieb Oswald Buddenhagen:<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>> it equivalent, you'd have to replace a push button with an equally sized<br>
> empty space. i can't imagine you'd advocate *that*. ;D<br>
guess what: if the style refused to paint diabled items, you'd get exactly this. ;-P<br>
the point is, that the clear button is /not/ the determining visual here.<br>
talking in QStyle, it's more like a complexcontrol subcontrol, embedded into a bigger context and not impacting the general appereance if vanished.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>(i hope we're all talking about the little box that recently appeared at the right hand of some editlines and replaced the not so elegant "black arrow button with an x")<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>> > what we don't do is [...] hiding information on possible [...] actions.<br>
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> well, actually, this is exactly the case here. ;)<br>
if the box is empty, then how is clearing it supposed to be a possible action?<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>hiding possible actions isn't imho less a problem, btw. but e.g. in popups, this also leads to "a new context menu" everyday :-\<br>
(i.e. the layout changes are the rather crucial aspect)</p></body></html>