On Wednesday 21 March 2012 03:12:44 David Narvaez wrote: > > On Tuesday 20 March 2012 11:26:18 Andrea Diamantini wrote: > > >> While working on them, I was thinking on... isn't it time to move > >> settings to an "about:settings" window in the same way chrom* does, > >> letting users to change them on the fly (which means, NO MORE > >> ok-apply-cancel buttons)? > >> What do you think about? > > > > > I honestly do not like that aproach. To me seems like having an obscure, > > hidden an non intuitive way to get to the settings of the application. > > Do you mean obscure because a user must type about:settings to get to > the settings? >
Yes, I do mean that. I could understand that for a strange configuration option but not for a thing like setting the proxy. I mean, it looks ok for advanced users but not for the average "Joe". How is he supposed to know that he has to type "about:settings" to get into the config? > > > If our concern is to avoid having to click on "Apply" or "Ok" we could find > > a way to automatically apply any change done in the settings window. > > I may be a bit too old school but, when using auto-applied config > dialogs, I never really trust the dialog so I end up thinking "this is > not working because it didn't apply the settings". We should state > very clearly that the settings are auto applied so that people like me > can build up trust plus you don't want mobile users to go scrolling > around searching for an Ok button. > That sounds reasonable Regards, Marc Deop _______________________________________________ rekonq mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/rekonq
