[Konversation-devel] [BUG] checkbox "Use a passive window that does not interrupt other work" is disabled when checked

Erik esigra at gmail.com
Mon Nov 3 12:23:53 CET 2008


Eike Hein skrev:
> a followup: Looking at the dialog, please note that
> the checkbox you're talking about is conditional on
> the one above it, which is also why it's indented.
> You first need to check "Show a message in a popup
> window", and then the "Use a passive ..." checkbox
> will become enabled and you can toggle it.
>
> This is because using a passive popup is a variant
> of the general idea of a popup notification, and the
> two popup variants are mutually exclusive. The beha-
> vior of the KNotify system should reflect this by not
> showing a passive popup even when that checkbox is
> checked, but the top-level popup notification check-
> box is not checked.
>
> Co-dependend checkboxes are a UI mechanic used fre-
> quently in KDE applications, and such a relationship
> is usually indicated by one checkbox being indented
> below another.
I know about co-dependent checkboxes, but this is not it. Co-dependent
checkboxes means that clicking one checkbox will enable/disable ANOTHER
checkbox. But here the checkbox disables ITSELF. That should never
happen, so it is clearly a bug.


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