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

[Thomas Zander]

On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 01:18:43AM +0200, Antonio Larrosa Jim?nez wrote:
> El Sunday 28 April 2002 16:19, Thomas Zander escribi?:
> > > 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 ?
Maybe not for your users, but the user can also use the mouse or press alt-s
This is not an argument for or against.

> 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 ?
MSN is not the only one, they changed the default from the mirabilis way of
working. Now MSN people don't sent multiline messages anymore. (You told me)

Anyway; the argument that people are able to read their whole message and 
get to use a scrollbar (verses a horizontal scrolling line edit) is much 
stronger then that they don't get to use the MSN default keyboard shortcut.
Again; there are at least two other ways to send a message.

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