Welcome dialog prevents immediate use of application
C. Boemann
cbo at boemann.dk
Wed Oct 24 12:39:14 BST 2012
On Wednesday 24 October 2012 13:33:42 Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:
> On 24 October 2012 13:18, Paul Gideon Dann <pdgiddie at gmail.com>
wrote:
> > On Wednesday 24 Oct 2012 13:12:08 Jaroslaw Staniek wrote:
> >> Yes, do you know you don't have to convince me? :) See
> >> http://www.calligra.org/news/first-beta-version-of-the-calligra-
suite/at
> >> tach ment/kexi-2-4-startup-new-project/
> >>
> >> (Kexi removed its modal Open/Save dialogs in 2.4)
> >
> > Wow, that looks so much better. Excellent work! I have a vague
memory
> > of having seen that in the original announcement. I hope that's
> > something all the applications can eventually benefit from too :)
>
> There are two things, contextual (tabbed) toolbar, similar and the
> 'modern' modeless ui.
>
> It was first seen here http://blogs.kde.org/2011/04/06/kde-5-menu
>
> See also the old video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzv9M2_sLQc
>
> As for the adoption in other apps, the idea was presented at the 1st
> Calligra sprint.
> I know we cannot afford to do that now (maybe in the meantime Qt 5
> port will what simplifies a lot of things with QML 2). This just
> isn't the top priority.
> But I agree something shall be changed, so if I had to vote, not
> displaying welcome dialogs if not really needed would be an easy,
'instant'
> fix.
I think sabsauer had looked at a quick fix once but found it a bit difficult.
something about file locations iirc
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