On Mon, 22 Jan 2001, Angus Leeming wrote:
> On Monday 22 January 2001 11:05, Dekel Tsur wrote:
> > I've already made changes that prevent inserting empty labels,
> > as this was the behaviour in 1.1.5. Why do we need empty
> > references ?
>
> Or empty Citations, or empty anything else for that matter. Perhaps we should
> use the philosopy "give him enough rope to hang himself with". In other
> words, if the user really wants an empty inset (for whatever, unknown,
> personal reason) then let him have it. The sane, intelligent user would of
> course just press Cancel.
>
> I'm not saying that I agree with this policy, (in fact, let me say that I
> don't) but we had this self-same chat a long, long time ago and the consensus
> view was "Ok" inserts the inset whether it's full or not.
>
> Angus
>
I *DO*. I actually use this feature myself - it's a handy way of reminding
me "ref here later". I don't want to mess with notes etc. un-necessarily.
To not allow empty insets like this is a grave UI mistake IMHO, and I
certainly won't be disabling it in the KDE frontend
john
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