| Summary: | usability wish: reuse an existing information dialog instead of opening another one | ||
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| Product: | [Applications] kalzium | Reporter: | Daniel Franke <franke.daniel> |
| Component: | general | Assignee: | Kalzium Developers <kalzium> |
| Status: | RESOLVED FIXED | ||
| Severity: | wishlist | ||
| Priority: | NOR | ||
| Version: | 1.3.1 | ||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Platform: | unspecified | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
| Latest Commit: | Version Fixed In: | ||
| Sentry Crash Report: | |||
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Description
Daniel Franke
2005-09-03 23:36:45 UTC
We decided that the small informationdialog only created problems. Therefore, in KDE 3.5 there is only one dialog which looks like this: http://edu.kde.org/kalzium/pics/screen2.png http://edu.kde.org/kalzium/pics/screen3.png http://edu.kde.org/kalzium/pics/screen4.png Only one dialog can be opened at a time but you can move to the next element with the "next" button or with the mousewheel. "previous" and "next" ar in terms of atomic numbers? Say, I wan't to see the noble gases, one by one? It would be nice if one could have both, the main window as well as the information dialog side-by-side, then, one may select any element in any order on the left side and its information is displayed in the dialog on the right side. +-------------+ +----------+ | Kalzium | | Info | | Main Window | | Dialog | +-------------+ +----------+ The point is: currently one has to close the info-dialog to inspect another element. prev/next buttons improve this matter, but "random access" doesn't work this way. think in terms of comparing elements in terms of size/weight/whatever, one most likely wouldn't do that one by one ... ?! Why can't you click on any other element when the dialog is open? I works here. And yes, mousewheel and "next"/"previous" select the element with +1 or -1 in the elementnumber (# of protons). About comparing: We want the dialog to be able to show two elements at the same time. But that is post-3.5 because we are in feature-freeze. About the Noble gases: That is just one random group. Other groups would be "Metals" or "Contuctors" or "Elements liquid at 20 *** Bug has been marked as fixed ***. I didn't check any later release than 1.3.1, which comes with kde-3.4.2, yet. There it's not possible to switch from one element to the next without closing the dialog in between. Given your last comment, I assume this will be possible in 3.5? |
