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

[Thomas Zander]

On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 01:57:38AM +0200, Rob Kaper wrote:
> On Monday 29 April 2002 01:21, Antonio Larrosa Jim?nez wrote:
> > ... _nobody_ wrote multiple lines messages (and I even asked them to do so,
> > but they simply don't know how ...
> 
> No, abusing a text edit to make Enter send would make it hard to find out how 
> to use newlines. ;-)

Yes, that is saying the feature is bad since in a different implementation the
users did not understand it.  The implementation should be fixed but the feature
is a good one.
I now understand why you keep saying nobody is using it; you are talking with/about
MSN users.  I have not used ICQ for quite some time and back then mirabilis was the
only client (before the icq2000 days) the interface was better back then and 
everyone was using multi-line edits.
If only b/c the first line was used in the history and most people used that line
as kind of subject for their messages.

> > Just check the "use multiple line messages" box and there you are.
> 
> Yes, this would be the best solution, switching between QLineEdit and 
> QTextEdit based on this setting.

No, since that changes the behaviour of your send button, and is even more
confusing to the user.  Besides I have not seen good arguments that a multi-line
edit is bad. 

Most people either use the mouse or pres alt-s to sent if they are unable to find
ctrl-enter..

-- 
Thomas Zander                                            zander at earthling.net
The only thing worse than failure is the fear of trying something new
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