>>>>> "John" == John Levon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> 1/ what Richark and dochawk said is certainly true. Being forced to >> use the mouse to enter lengths is not very nice. And even if xforms >> had keyboard support for choice widgets, it would remain a bit >> painful (remember you will need a different keyboard accellerator >> for each choice widget!) John> nah, it should be tab navigatable like modern toolkits. even John> better would have up/down in the text entry switch units. Agreed, but you would have to provide the kbd shortcuts anyway... John> yes, you're right that the current qt2 solution sucks. I wasn't John> sure then how much used this feature was by the power users, and John> how important it was - the answers seem to be : very little, and John> very little. This is the answer _I_ would give. Maybe some other power users could comment on this. My idea for vertical space, for example is that the explicit length box should be as unintrusive as possible, so that people are not too tempted to use it if they do not need to. So a separate popup would fit in the picture. >> 2/ if there is a default unit, we could have a single text entry >> field where people could enter either '1', '1cm' '1cm+0.5in' or >> whatever. This is good for power users. John> mmm. and bad for new lyx users. I come along to a dialog with an John> "extra length" and a value. I have NO idea what units this John> length is in, or how to find out - little do I know there is a John> default. The proble is that we use an empty text input to mean don't do anything here. So we have to help people when they are entering a value in a input field which was previously empty. What about appending automatically the default unit when people begin to type a number? I do not know whether we can do that right or whether it will always be an annoyance. Another option is to use tooltips. John> ... and plus this, would be good. Sounds like a Juergen S thing John> to me :)) I think JUergen mentionned it is over his competences. But all he needs is a gently push :) There is probably a nasty signal/slot problem to solve here. What would be nice is to have the text fiald open like a kind of combox, but it seems too complicated. JMarc
