[Kst] Re: Data Wizard issues

C. Barth Netterfield netterfield at physics.utoronto.ca
Wed Jun 23 03:56:40 CEST 2004


In fact, I guess I do not like the embedded dialog....  at least for the 
reasons listed below, and for appearance reasons.  I would prefer it if we 
can revert...

cbn
	
On Tuesday 22 June 2004 2:05 pm, Andrew Walker wrote:
> Hi George,
>
> I'll take a look at these issues. At this point Barth is not sure
> if he even likes the appearance of the file dialog embedded in the
> data wizard, so it may get ripped out altogether.
>
> Andrew
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From: George Staikos <staikos at kde.org>
> Date:  Tue, 22 Jun 2004 13:34:19 -0400
>
> >   There are still some major issues with the embedded file dialog in the
> > data wizard.
> >
> >1) The Next button no longer validates the file, and is always available.
> >2) Selecting directories (for dirfiles, planck databases) is not very
> > clean because you have to browse into the directory you want, then click
> > "Next" with no file selected.
> >3) It's much slower.
> >4) It doesn't come up in the right directory for the file that's inserted
> > in the Location: lineedit.
> >5) It becomes quite inconsistent between the first two pages when you
> > select a file (either valid or invalid) and then go back and switch to an
> > invalid or valid file respectively.  It's not clear that you're using the
> > old data file sometimes because opening the new one failed, for instance.
> >6) The dialog is in remote file mode as well, which is incorrect since we
> >don't support that yet.
> >
> >
> >--
> >George Staikos
> >KDE Developer			http://www.kde.org/
> >Staikos Computing Services Inc.	http://www.staikos.net/
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