DrKonqui appearance (was: Re: New KMessageBox Style )

John Tapsell johnflux at gmail.com
Tue Feb 5 17:29:09 GMT 2008


Hi,
  It looks nice, but the text field is kinda small.

  If people do want a small text field, could we have a big gripper
thing on the right hand corner of the window?  (Is this possible in
Qt?)  To make it easy to resize the window to read the contents.

John

On 05/02/2008, pinheiro <nuno at oxygen-icons.org> wrote:
> Em Terça, 5 de Fevereiro de 2008 13:09, o Robert Knight escreveu:
> > Hi,
> >
> > > I've rewritten the error message there so it's imho more obvious to the
> > > end user what has happened, and how to address the problem. I hope this
> > > gives some inspiration to improve the dialog.
> >
> > The wording still needs adjustment for some users.  For example, what
> > is a "fatal error"?  Did the program just kill somebody?  In Urs'
> > screenshot, the dialog still has text about a "signal" and "SEGSEGV" .
> > How the program actually died is not relevant to anyone other than the
> > developer, all that everyone else knows is that it inconvenienced them
> > and possibly lost some work.
>
> Wour work is not about the text, dough i couldnt agrea more on that, some of
> the text bits are realy realy in need of assistence.
>
> > On a broader note, requiring the user to actually go to bugs.kde.org
> > to file a report and copy in the backtrace probably means that the
> > majority of crashes are never reported at all.  Windows has been
> > sending automated crash reports for years now and I believe Gnome does
> > as well.
>
> I agrea as well
>
> > Regards,
> > Robert.
>
>
> --
> nuno pinheiro
> core oxygen icon designer
>




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