Can you add cancel button when it's possible?

Xan DXpublica at telefonica.net
Thu Jun 17 17:09:17 CEST 2004


Sorry. Wrong mail from I send it.
> Dijous 17 Juny 2004 13:41, en/na Ondrej Mihalyi (<Ondrej Mihalyi
>
> <mihalyi at matfyz.cz>>) va escriure:
> > I agree with you that the option to revert is not crucial, but as Auke
> > Kok (sofar) mentioned, it's always nice to have that option if it's only
> > a bit useful, and I believe it is if you have more than two options - you
> > chose one, you don't like it, but now you can't remember which one you
> > had before and keep trying one after another until you find it (e.g theme
> > names, font size and name, etc.
>
> This is exactly what I want to say. You have more perfect english than me
> ;-)
>
> > To conclude my comments and clarify my statements, whether we have a
> > REVERT button is not important to me.
>
> Strictly, this is not so important to me too. I think that there are a lot
> of features more important than this, but I considering it important in the
> sense that it's a little detail that can help many people. For example,
> migrated people from kde or windows (where the majorty of windows has ok
> and cancel button) (a part people with situation described previously) and
> by completeness of the xfce4 (with this xfce4 is better; like gimp with
> revert button is better than gimp without it). And it's optional: if you
> don't want, don't click on it ;-)
>
> Dijous 17 Juny 2004 14:58, en/na Ondrej Mihalyi (<Ondrej Mihalyi
>
> <mihalyi at matfyz.cz>>) va escriure:
> > I understand now, thanks for clarification of the process, because even
> > though I'm a developer, I have no experience with huge collaborative
> > projects like XFCE and anything that gets me closer to uderstand how
> > developing such a project works makes me happy.
> >
> > I take your reply as a challange to post a patch, and won't bother you
> > until I am able to make one.  I want to make myself clear in that I have
> > no intention to bother you with bunch of feature requests (as I didn't
> > start this thread), but it's my only chance to make XFCE better by
> > supporting some useful features which not only I would appreciate.
>
> Wow!!. Incredible thought!. I lift my hat (!!!). I haven't hear this type
> of thought since more time ago. The ideas that "we should to better this
> because this could be better" don't abound in this world. The majorty are
> "we should do better this if there is a thing _that we are interested in
> it_"
>
> > I hope I'll have
> > time and experience later to do something more :) ( for now I think it's
> > easier to tell you to change it than to download the code and find out
> > where to change it )
> >
> > By the way, here is my example:
> > 	I sometimes change my themes, when I want xfce desktop look nice with
> > non-XFCE desktop applications like  gkrellm.  In that case I keep going
> > through all themes until I find the right one, but often I cannot find a
> > better theme, and then I'm not able to easily revert to my old theme. I
> > certainly agree, that most features don't need a revert button, but some
> > definitely would be easily customizable if REVERT button was present. 
> > Not that I wouldn't work around it now :)
> >
> > Keep doing your good work, I appreciate it a lot,
> > ondro
>
> Thank you very much Ondrej for this effective support (and Auke for your
> concrete example of gimp!).
>
> And thank you to all of you, for hear my comments even if you don't like
> them. But I'm only a desktop user that try to make better the things. If I
> were a programmer, I implement some code. But I'm a user and I suggest you
> ideas.
>
> If I do that it's because xfce matters to me and because you (all of you)
> hear me (thing that it's not usual).
>
> Thanks.



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