KAssistant / Proposal for a new "KStepList" widget

[Krzysztof Lichota]

Tobias Koenig napisał(a):
> On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 05:46:52PM +0200, Matthias Lechner wrote:
>> Hi Oliver,
> Hi,
> 
>> before I started KStepList I tried all the available faces of KDialog, but in 
>> my opinion a list on the left in no perfectly appropriate solution for an 
>> assistant dialog. I think a list with steps that are connected in some way 
>> reflects more the assistant's design (interdependence of steps, usually 
>> importance of step order...) than a list with icons would do.
> Right, hacking KPageView just to match this special way is the wrong
> approach and we'll end up with such a beast as KJanusWidget was!
> 
> So please reimplement a new widget/dialog for the page step thingy.
> Code sharing is still possible though, for example you can use the
> KIconPageDelegate to draw the icon view.

I think it is a perfect task for usability team to decide how assistant
dialog should look like to provide best experience for user.
"Cool features" are often useless or even harming for user's experience.

My 2c.

	Krzysztof Lichota


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