Bug 119826

Summary: diff page of kompare's opening dialog confusing and not fool-proof
Product: [Applications] kompare Reporter: Winfried Dobbe <winfried_mb2>
Component: generalAssignee: Kompare developers <kompare-devel>
Status: RESOLVED NOT A BUG    
Severity: normal CC: finex
Priority: NOR    
Version: 3.3   
Target Milestone: ---   
Platform: openSUSE   
OS: Linux   
Latest Commit: Version Fixed In:

Description Winfried Dobbe 2006-01-09 22:58:51 UTC 
Version:           3.3 (using KDE KDE 3.5.0)
Installed from:    SuSE RPMs
Compiler:          gcc (GCC) 4.0.2 
OS:                Linux

When Kompare starts, the first dialog has a page "files" where you can enter 2 files to compare. The next page is called "diff", so one can easily think that you can enter a diff file there. One should however enter the diff program there. This is confusing. 

Moreover, when you accidently enter the path of a diff file in the "Diff program" field and click the compare button, Kompare hangs.
Comment 1 FiNeX 2009-01-04 16:31:09 UTC 
on KDE4 a description has been added on the three sections. Anyway the UI could be improved a bit to emphasize.

About the "hang" problem, kompare doesn't hang on KDE 4 if a .diff file is inserted on the "diff program" line.
Comment 2 Kevin Kofler 2009-01-04 16:37:19 UTC 
Not a bug, closing.