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

[Thomas Zander]

On Mon, Apr 29, 2002 at 01:32:53PM +0200, Antonio Larrosa Jim?nez wrote:
> El Monday 29 April 2002 10:49, Neil Stevens escribi?:
> > Martijn described a way to highlight the behavior that users may never
> > guess on their own, and further showed a way to make the behavior
> > configurable.  He pointed out that it's the way things have been done
> > all over KDE.
> 
> Wrong. 
Antonio; please re-read the question above; your answer does not fit the 
question.


> _I_ am the one that pointed out that people won't guess by their own 
> that Ctrl-Enter submits (which is what Martijn wants to use by keeping a 
> multilineedit). _I_ am the one that wants to make the behaviour 
> configurable (by using QLineEdits by default and so, Enter submits and 
> allow to set a checkbox that makes kopete use multilineedits, and so 
> Ctrl-Enter submits, being completely standard comformant). And Martijn 
> _and_ _me_ have always talked about making things standard comformant, 
> noone said _never_ to make a multilineedit send on Enter, or use 
> non-standard key bindings.

To recap; your main problem seems to be that users won't expect nor find 
ctrl-enter to sent.

The argument (and a good one at that) of Niel is that in the whole of KDE
there are lots of examples on how to make the user see what a certain 
keybinding is for an action.  Why don't they suffice?

Adding a config option requires the user to understand BOTH concepts
and their advantages/disadvantages to make an informed decision, without
the option the user just has to learn that ctrl-enter submits. While that 
last part is not even needed.

Your solution does not solve the basic problem either; you simply avoid it
by making it configurable.

I'll make this my last email on this subject.
-- 
Thomas Zander                                            zander at earthling.net
The only thing worse than failure is the fear of trying something new
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