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[Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx>]

>From a UX perspective, I am strongly in favor of merging rounded and
non-rounded rectangles into radius>0 and radius=0.

On Sat, Apr 09, 2016 at 06:59:54AM +1200, Simon Wells wrote:
> It is most likely osx specific based on a screenshot that nickoe sent
> me, But i am not sure the text should be/needs to be disabled, if you
> want it disabled then we will probably need to have an #ifdef for osx
> to stop it disabling, or to just hide the section completely, However
> its done the same really needs to be done with the trapezoidal stuff.
> The bottom section could be used for nothing OR trapez..... OR rounded
> rectangle.
> 
> Also just in terms of UX do we really need to differentiate rounded
> rectangle from rectangle, or could it just be 0 radius = rectangle, or
> alternatively a checkbox to enable the rounded corners. As rounded
> rectangle is still rectangle and it just pollutes the drop down box
> 
> Simon
> 
> On Sat, Apr 9, 2016 at 6:08 AM, jp charras <jp.charras@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Le 08/04/2016 19:59, jp charras a écrit :
> >> Le 08/04/2016 18:34, Simon Wells a écrit :
> >>> Hi JP,
> >>>
> >>> With the pad editor dialog in 6673 (i have looked at the changelogs
> >>> for 6674 and 6675 and can't see any changes to this) The new fields
> >>> you have added behave differently to the trapezoidal fields, mainly
> >>> that the text is set to disabled (or something) colour as well with
> >>> the corner radius part of the dialog. Can this be changed to match the
> >>> trapezoidal fields, as on OSX the only thing visible without tilting
> >>> my laptop screen well off axis is the primary text box which looks a
> >>> bit odd as can be seen in the attached image
> >>>
> >>> thanks
> >>>
> >>> Simon
> >>
> >> This is a bit strange.
> >> Texts are just disabled.
> >
> > I mean: they are grayed but visible on W7 or Linux.
> > No problem to fix it, but currently I have an issue on W7 + msys2 after an update.
> >
> >>
> >> Can you have look at this for a fix: it looks OSX specific.
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
> > Jean-Pierre CHARRAS
> >
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