RFC: KSSL dialog usability

Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper vR at movingparts.net
Fri Jun 16 12:20:00 BST 2006


On Thursday 15 June 2006 17:01, Helge Deller wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> this is a proposal to make KDE's current (KDE 3.5) KSSL dialog IMHO a
> little bit more usable....
>
> For me, the biggest problem is, that currently it's very hard to see which
> server requested a certificate. As you can see at this example:
> http://gsyprf11.external.hp.com/~deller/old_dialog.jpg the requesting
> server is hidden in the title of the dialog window and often you have to
> resize the window to see the requesting server. Furthermore, you always had
> to move the mouse to the radio buttons (Send/Do not send) and afterwards to
> the pushbutton at the bottom of the dialog.
>
> With the attached patch (which changes only the c++ source file and does
> not touch the header file) applied, the dialog now looks like this:
> http://gsyprf11.external.hp.com/~deller/new_dialog.jpg
>
> I would like to submit this patch to KDE-3.5 branch for KDE-3.5.4.
> Opinions ?

Wow!  Much, much, much better.  =:)

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