KGlobalSettings::completionMode() can be read, is not consistent in KDE though

[Michael Brade]

On Saturday 24 April 2004 03:58, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> On April 23, 2004 06:38, Dawit A. wrote:
> > Your suggestion or guess would be as good as mine :) The problem of where
> > to put it is why there is no GUI for it already... There are many
> > options, for example in the io-slaves, that have no configuration option
> > ; so this is not by far an isolated problem. The worst part about all of
> > it is that most of these types of options are not documented at all.
>
> this is why i suggested what i suggested in the first place. sure, we have
> a "Default" option but then there is no way to easily adjust that default.
jep.

> if instead the option was "Use Desktop-Wide Setting" (or something similar)
How about "Use as Desktop-Wide Setting" or "Set as Default"? Yours doesn't 
make clear that any change actually also changes the default.

> then the user would still be able to select from the list of option,s which
> would then set either the global setting or the app-specific setting
> depending on the state of this entry. this would allow making a change to
> one lineedit affecting ALL others in KDE, while also preserving
> app-specific behaviour as an option.
good one, I think that the popup itself would be the best place to also change 
the default---where else would one look for it otherwise?

> here are the four use cases:
fully agreed. Who's gonna implement it? Me? :)

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