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

[Antonio Larrosa Jiménez]

El Sunday 28 April 2002 02:58, Ryan Cumming escribió:
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> On April 27, 2002 17:21, 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 some other times I have to use Ctrl-Enter when talking with
> > another one ("and this application says it's because my friends are
> > using different protoc...somethings" )
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> Single line edits use enter to activate. Multiline edits use Ctrl-Enter.
> IRC uses a single line edit. Other protocols use a multiline edit. This
> really isn't that hard of a concept.

It isn't a difficult concept for you and for me and for the rest of the 
persons in this list, but it's _stupid_ for the average user that doesn't 
know what a multilineedit is.

Note also that I never said to make Enter submit on a multilineedit (that 
would be inconsistent with the rest of KDE), but I think every protocol 
should use "single"lineedits (and perhaps have a global checkbox to kopete 
that says something like "allow to send multiple lines of text at once" 
and then create multilineedits instead of "single"lineedits).

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Antonio Larrosa Jimenez
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