Re: Re[2]: INS

From: Alan Horkan (horkana@tcd.ie)
Date: Mon Jan 20 2003 - 11:25:30 EST

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    That is almost exactly what i suggested in the bug report.
    >
    > Apparently the latest versions of ms office have a non blocking warning
    > message that will go away after a given time if you ignore it.
    >
    > Alan Horkan
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    >
    > On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Peter Lundqvist wrote:
    >
    > > Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2003 11:35:12 +0100 (CET)
    > > From: Peter Lundqvist <peterl@update.uu.se>
    > > To: Omer Zak <omerz@actcom.co.il>
    > > Cc: AbiWord Developers <abiword-dev@abisource.com>
    > > Subject: Re: Re[2]: INS
    > >
    > > On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Omer Zak wrote:
    > > > Would it be possible to add an option to Preferences, which will allow the
    > > > user to select between the standard behavior (INS/OVR or INS in green/OVR
    > > > in red or whatever not intrusive) and an intrusive behavior (defined here
    > > > as a behavior which requires an extra mouse click)?
    > >
    > > How about something like this?
    > >
    > > +----------------------------------+
    > > | You pressed the insert key (!) |
    > > | Doing so you will write your |
    > > | over any text ahead of the |
    > > | cursor |
    > > | |
    > > | Is this what you intended? |
    > > | o Never show this dialog again |
    > > | ._____. .____. |
    > > | | Yes | | No | |
    > > | `ŻŻŻŻŻ` `ŻŻŻŻ` |
    > > +----------------------------------+
    > >
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