Style guide decision needed (was: [Kopete-devel] Bug#40938: behaviour change request)

Dawit A. adawit at kde.org
Sat Apr 27 05:17:28 BST 2002


Hi,

On Friday 26 April 2002 20:25, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Friday 26 April 2002 04:34 pm, Rob Kaper wrote:

[snipped]

> > With KHTML and other KDE applications in mind, I really think it is most
> > consistent to use Enter as newline and Ctrl-Enter as "submit" shortcut
> > (I'd love that in KHTML in lineedits and textedits).
>
> Sounds fine with me. Something like
>
> "Enter" Will ok/submit/send in situations where only 1 line-edit is
> available, but not in case of multi-line-edits or multiple line-edits.
>
> "Ctrl-Enter" Will always ok/submit/send.

That is not always the case.  For example, if one is using popup completion in 
KComboBox or KLineEdit CTRL+Enter will simply select the highlighted entry 
without activating it, i.e. w/o submitting it. 

Regards,
Dawit A.





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