<!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 Chani:<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>> can't we just auto-remove an empty line (that's not the last row) when the<br>
> user leaves it? then there'd be no magical hidden buttons, and 99% of the<br>
> time we'd be doing what the user means without them having to click<br>
> anything.<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>(for kmail) i initially agreed with aaron on that some mails before...<br>
;-)<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>this here's only about: what do we do with the "clear line" button in general<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>(display always/on non empty lines/on hover or focus, impacting state indication, visual noise and usability)<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>a drawback of a permanent visible icon (aside the clutter) is that users might click them, figure they do nothing ("i already heard KDE4 is buggy") and just take them as annoyance.<br>
so you'd have to at least display them disabled (indicating: exist, but currently w/o use - what's hard to sell without making them too intrusive in the active state)<br>
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