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

[Antonio Larrosa Jiménez]

El Sunday 28 April 2002 16:19, Thomas Zander escribió:
> > On Sunday 28 April 2002 14:04, Antonio Larrosa Jim?nez wrote:
> > > 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).
>
> Hmm, and then you get multi-line edits; and now what?  Use ctrl-enter is
> an idea, don't you think? :)

If I wanted to send a multiline message, yes, but most people send 
singleline messages, so they prefer to use Enter to send.

>
> ps. all users will use multi-line edits since thats easier to use (all
> text simultanious on screen etc) and is what they are used to, so if

What I understand from your words is that your arguments for always using 
multiline edits are:
1) easy to use
2) that's what they're used to
isn't it ?

Well, let me prove you wrong:
1) Is really Ctrl-Enter easier to use (and to find out) than Enter ?
2) Do you really think people are used to use Ctrl-Enter to send?
How many MSN users are out there that use Enter to send ?
and how many IRC users that are also used to do that ?

Greetings,

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Antonio Larrosa Jimenez
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