[kde-guidelines] Styleguide: Inline editing

Thomas Pfeiffer colomar at autistici.org
Thu Jul 4 15:51:18 UTC 2013


On Thursday 04 July 2013 16:17:50 Aurélien Gâteau wrote:

> > I guess we'll need to define how that distinction should be visualized.
> > Otherwise every developer comes up with a different visualization.
> > 
> > Other than that, I'd love to see more inline editing in KDE applications,
> > so this guideline is very welcome! The question is: Will we see
> > widespread adoption without a ready-made component to implement it?
> 
> I don't think it makes sense to have a guideline for it without an existing
> Qt or kdelibs class.
> 
> Don't get me wrong: I too would love to see more inline editing, and I am
> willing to implement the necessary classes, but it feels disconnected from
> reality to recommend something which cannot easily be done (again, we need
> to keep in mind the HIG is in use right now).
> 
> What about keeping the guideline outside of the HIG, and move it when the
> relevant widgets are ready?

+1. We have the "SOU_Workspace" page 
(http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Usability/HIG/SOU_Workspace), we could place 
it there.


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