KConfigDialog

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On March 21, 2007, Tobias Koenig wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2007 at 05:38:27PM -0600, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > On March 20, 2007, Andreas Pakulat wrote:
>
> Hi Aaron,
>
> > there are two ways around this: keep a second KCS around populated with
> > the original values and sync the two KCS's or track changes per-widget
> > ... or, i suppose, the third option is to ignore the whole problem and
> > keep the status quo.
>
> A third way would be to do it like Kate does. If it detects that the
> file has changed it pops up a dialog and asks whether the changed file
> should be loaded into the editor.

i'm not sure this is appropriate for configuration dialogs. they aren't 
editting content like a text or image file and the changes in this case will 
always have happened "invisibly" to them rather than with file changes where 
it almost always happens due to something the user has initiated.

> The cases that the config is changed in the background should happen
> really seldom, but when it happens the user should be informed about it.

i'd actually consider it quite the opposite. why -wouldn't- they want settings 
reflected in the dialog?

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Aaron J. Seigo
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