[PATCH] Re: Missing Clear entry in context menu for lineedit

Matthew Woehlke mw_triad at users.sourceforge.net
Wed Oct 24 02:05:02 BST 2007


Jakob Petsovits wrote:
> My personal preference is on just Clear, because imho Clear All is redundant: 
> clearing any textbox, list or whatever always removes all items (or 
> characters, in this case), and with Clear All, I would (without context) 
> assume that it clears multiple thingies. Say, textboxes.
> Which is not what it does.

In theory, I think "clear" would only clear the selection, but I agree 
that this seems more likely to cause confusion than adding "clear" that 
really means "clear all".

-- 
Matthew
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