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Subject:	Re: [geda-user] Pin Type Dialog
From:	Britton Kerin <britton DOT kerin AT gmail DOT com>
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On Tue, Aug 5, 2014 at 5:53 PM, Edward Hennessy <ehennes AT sbcglobal DOT net> wrote:
>
> On Aug 4, 2014, at 9:09 PM, Kai-Martin Knaak <kmk AT familieknaak DOT de> wrote:
>
>> Edward Hennessy wrote:
>>
>>> Non-modal dialogs can be left open during the entire session while
>>> editing schematics.
>>
>> ack.
>> Modal dialogs are considered inferior UI style since at least the
>> start of the century. Along the same lines, "apply" buttons are
>> discouraged. See for example the Gnome2 Human Interface Guidelines
>> (HIG).
>>       https://developer.gnome.org/hig-book/stable/
>
> I'm currently using section 3.3.1 as guidelines for these windows.
>
> However, I couldn't get a mechanism to instant-apply from a TextView
> widget. Unfortunately, that individual widget still has an apply
> at the moment. It looks like the next step to get rid of the apply
> button is a custom keypress filter.
>
> What should the behavior be? (e.g. Shift return inserts a newline
> into the text; Return applies the content to the schematic.)

Gnumeric uses alt-enter to insert a newline into a cell.  I don't know how
widespread that behavior is accross gtk/gnome apps.

Britton

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