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

Waldo Bastian bastian at kde.org
Sat Apr 27 07:37:08 BST 2002


On Friday 26 April 2002 09:17 pm, Dawit A. wrote:
> 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.

Maybe that should be changed then. E.g. make "Enter" select the highlighted 
entry without submitting it, and make Ctrl-Enter select+submit.

Cheers,
Waldo
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