[Kde-games-devel] Radiobuttons instead of Checkboxes for card dialog

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 07.12.07 15:45:38, Mauricio Piacentini wrote:
> Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > currently the card dialog uses 2 checkboxes to let the user select
> > wether he wants to see only png or only svg decks. However the
> > checkboxes actually implement radio-button logic, that is when both are
> > selected, one of them gets unselected. This causes flicker and also is a
> > bit strange to the user - IMO.
> > 
> > Would it be possible to change that to 3 radio buttons, labelled
> > svg-only, png-only, both? That would make the whole thing a bit more
> > clear. 
> 
> Well, I do not think adding yet another option for this setting would 
> help. IMO it would just create more confusion. :)
> 
> > Again I'd like to say that I didn't follow the lengthy discussion that
> > existed around this dialog. So if there is an earlier decision on this,
> > I'd appreciate a pointer to that part of the thread.
> 
> To me, the current approach is a bit strange. To the user, the terms 
> "scalable" or "fixed size" do not make much sense, since all cards scale 
> anyway in code. Some just look bad, that is all :) My mom is a KPat 
> user, and these options would just confuse her.
> 
> I would use (for 4.1, due to string freeze) a single checkbox, labeled 
> something like: "Show old card decks" or "Show legacy card decks" or 
> "Show classic card decks" or "Show KDE3 card decks". We can vote on 
> which is better. When this is enabled, both png and svg would be shown. 
> With this off, only svg would be displayed (the default setting imo.) I 
> do not see a user case for having just the old ones (png), do you? And 
> we are pushing for future usage of SVG only in games, so in the future 
> we would probably be able to redo the current png ones maybe, and get 
> rid of this option.

Agreed :) So I'll leave it as is for 4.0 and I'll file a bugreport about
this change, so its not forgotten.

Andreas

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