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Philipp Überbacher wrote:

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> Excerpts from david's message of 2011-08-09 20:56:12 +0200:

>> Philipp Überbacher wrote:

>>> Excerpts from david's message of 2011-08-09 10:13:51 +0200:

>>>> Philipp Überbacher wrote:

>>>>> Excerpts from david's message of 2011-08-08 01:32:25 +0200:

>>>>>> Emanuel Rumpf wrote:

>>>>>>> 2011/8/7 Emanuel Rumpf :

>>>>>>>> ** Input from the user is important, because that's a whole different view ! **

>>>>>>>>

>>>>>>> One could support that

>>>>>>> by adding direct feedback functionality to the application.

>>>>>>>

>>>>>>> - Double-Click Bug-Reports and Feature-Requests

>>>>>>> - Integrated, cached User Chat ( + Dev Chat)

>>>>>>> - Tips and Hints with Rating possibility

>>>>>>> - Integrated News Panel

>>>>>>> - user supplied, editable context help updated over the internet

>>>>>> Just don't make your app dependent on some specific mail client.

>>>>>>

>>>>>> I've used K3B for many years now. Twice now, it has popped up asking my

>>>>>> option of the program. It then tries to mail it using KMail, which I

>>>>>> don't have installed. So you'd think it would recognize the failure and

>>>>>> either give me the email text to copy and paste into my mail client of

>>>>>> choice? No, it just hangs forever until I close K3B ...

>>>>> That's called integration.

>>>> No, it's called bad assumption by the programmer: that just because

>>>> someone uses one KDE program, they use them all.

>>> But that's what integration currently means, make a program work well

>>> with others that belong to the same DE, forget about everything else.

>> No, when something your program is trying to use doesn't exist or is not

>> set up, you don't hang and become unresponsive. You check for error

>> responses to your system call, terminate the attempt, and tell your user

>> that you (the program) can't do what you're trying to do. Ideally, you

>> also tell them why ("KMail not installed"). Then you do a fallback; in

>> this case, you display a message box containing the information you're

>> trying to send, along with the address to send it to, and ask the user

>> to copy and paste it into an email using their mail client.

>

> Ah, sorry, I missed that it was completely unresponsive, sorry. I hope

> they'll fix this error now that they (maybe) heard of it.

I haven't run the KDE4 version of K3B long enough yet to know if it's

going to trigger the same message. And they're not maintaining KDE3 anymore.
--

David

gnome@hawaii.rr.com

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