Project config and KMessageBox' dontAskAgainName

Vladimir Prus ghost at cs.msu.su
Fri Jan 20 09:13:07 UTC 2006


On Friday 20 January 2006 03:27, Hamish Rodda wrote:
> On Friday 20 January 2006 02:55, Vladimir Prus wrote:
> > On Thursday 19 January 2006 18:45, Jens Dagerbo wrote:
> > > 3. Don't make it an option, always ask when the source has changed.
> > > It's a reasonable enough question under those conditions and the
> > > answer is likely to vary, even within the same project. ("What? I
> > > haven't changed a thing!? Oh, right. I fixed that typo in the comment.
> > > No, don't rebuild.")
> >
> > Hmm... on a second though that seems reasonable. I'll remove this "Don't
> > ask again" checkbox unless somebody has better ideas. (And wait for users
> > to complain ;-) )
>
> I think in this instance you should do what the build tool does - make
> automatic rebuild on run (or debug in this case) configurable on/off, and
> don't prompt the user - just do what the config says.  In fact, it would
> make sense to just reuse this configuration.

I think I more agree with Jens' reasoning -- that one time you'll want to 
rebuild, and another time you won't.

- Volodya




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