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

[Carsten Pfeiffer]

On Sunday 28 April 2002 02:21, Antonio Larrosa Jiménez wrote:

> Well, I would find it inconsistent if "in the same application" (read,
> kopete), sometimes I have to use Enter to send some text to a friend and

Yes, that's what I meant with "IM and IRC might not go well together [in one 
application]. Maybe the irc-plugin should simply provide a single lineedit?

I mean, not being able to use Return to produce a newline in a multilineedit 
will cause even more confusion than not being able to send it with Return, 
no? IMHO the consistency with multiline editor widgets is more important than 
being able to close a dialog with Return. Actually, if there is no default 
button in the dialog, the user should notice that Return wouldn't activate 
the action, right?

> > I figured it out pretty quickly. No program could be that crappy,
> > forcing you to grab the mouse and hit that darn Send-button to finish
> > every message :-]
>
> That's said by the person who claimed that users won't use the delete key
> (or was it "backspace"?) because they don't know what it does or don't
> know it exists :-) And do you think they'll find Ctrl-Return? ;-)

Heh, touché :) But I never said, people would find, I just said, that _I_ 
found it pretty quickly (in licq btw, when I first used it). And then I told 
my friend using ICQ 2001 on Windows about that shortcut ;)

Cheers
Carsten Pfeiffer