Text Editor suggestions

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Friday, August 17th 2007, 12:14am

Suggestion of setting the default setting to not having the current selected line of different background color (light blue) - it's harder for the eye to grasp.

Also, would like to suggest text editors not saving backup files by default - just clutters things with two of every filename.

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jucato

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Friday, August 17th 2007, 9:32am

RE: Text Editor suggestions

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Originally posted by user1001
Suggestion of setting the default setting to not having the current selected line of different background color (light blue) - it's harder for the eye to grasp.

As far as I know, the default color for the current line was setup that way for accessibility and usability reasons, much like the alternating background color in lists. I guess that you would probably need to have usability or accessibility studies or proof to support your suggestion.

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Also, would like to suggest text editors not saving backup files by default - just clutters things with two of every filename.

My personal opinion is that these backups have saved my ass a couple of times. And it's much easier to delete them or disable them than it is to recover previous versions or to actually discover that the feature exists. But that's just my opinion, probably shared by others since it has been the default for quite some time now, and I've not seen anyone complain about it... until now of course.

Don't know if it's probably more useful to file a bug report on this as a wishlist in http://bugs.kde.org

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user1001

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Friday, August 17th 2007, 11:13am

I guess it's an existing Linux users vs newcomers from Windows thing - those two things were a bit of an annoyance to me as a previously Windows user. I'm used to backing up important files myself on Windows.... as far as I can remember never had a situation where I would have needed a text editor's backup function in 18 years of PC usage.

The accessibility features put in to by default support of a minority of users, could be negative features for the majority of users who don't require them!?

I'm guessing MS has done a lot more research in this area than the Linux community, and their design choices seem good, atleast to me... of course, it could also be because I might be used to such design on Windows..... creating a poll might be a good idea.