enhance KRecentFilesAction with a ui action to remove entries
Matthew Woehlke
mw_triad at users.sourceforge.net
Mon Mar 9 23:06:03 GMT 2009
Parker Coates wrote:
> I am somewhat concerned with the text chosen for the action. I see
> there being the possibility that the word "remove" could be
> interpreted as "delete" in this context. I'm also not sure the word
> "entries" has any real meaning to your average user. I don't
> necessarily have a better suggestion, though. Perhaps "Clear recent
> files list"?
+1. "Clear list" is also fine by me. (You could try asking kde-usability
for suggestions also.)
> Another small detail is the method names "clearActionEnabled()" and
> "setClearActionEnabled()". Generally, in the context of actions the
> word "enabled" indicates that an item is clickable and not greyed out,
> but here it indicates only visibility, which I could see leading to
> confusion. "clearActionVisible()" and "setClearActionVisibility()"
> might make more sense, but I'd wait for others to weigh in there.
I thought for a property 'bool foo' it was 'setFoo' and '*is*Foo'? Maybe
I am wrong though.
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