Forum: "Submit" vs. "Ask as Question"

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Hi everyone! Since the update this morning the default behaviour for posting a new topic has changed: Old default was "Ask as Question" new default is "Submit." Was this change introduced intentionally?

Charby

I don't know about this change, but I do like the new finger up and down icons which I think clarify the "like" feature (as you mentioned in your earlier post).

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@Charby Yes, I like the new icons, too.

tekojo

@Wieland no, default setting got run over by the update, need to go and change that too.

tekojo

Actually looks like it ignores the option. Need to investigate. I do prefer the "Ask as a question" mode.

kshegunov

@tekojo
Agreed! I actually believe that "Ask question" is more appropriate for most of the cases. There're few "free" discussions in the forums, more or less there's a question about a problem that'd need answering.

tekojo

And the fix was surprisingly simple. A new option that did not want to be in the default empty setting, but needed the 'all' option to be on.

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Looks like the problem is back.

koahnig

@tekojo @Wieland

Does this also affect the "mark solved" feature?

I have someone asking because he cannot mark his post as solved. I cannot see this either for his post. I have checked for a post of mine, there I cannot see the possibility to mark as solved either.

tekojo

@koahnig @Wieland the option that was there is now gone :(
Instead it has a "force everything to be a question" option. Should I turn that on?

The topic tools should have the mark as solved option as well as turn into a normal discussion.

koahnig

@tekojo

I have checked in the testing area. Normal discussion did not show both options. I had to switch to question (whatever the proper term is) and there was the mark solved entry in addition to teh possibility to transform to normal discussion.

koahnig

Since I am not aware of a similar entry, I have entered a new post addressing the solved marker issue.

I am not sure who sees it there, possibly we can move it to a general forum and mark it for a while as being permanent or whatever the appropriate way is.

@Moderators Please check out and feel free to correct.

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@tekojo "force everything to be a question option" sounds good to me.

tekojo

... and everything is a question

LRDPRDX

Sorry for the awakening this old topic but as you'll see I had no other option :)

When I try to create a new topic I just cannot select the category and thus cannot submit. What am I supposed to do?

jsulm

@LRDPRDX You created a topic here: https://forum.qt.io/topic/131803/double-free-or-corruption-out-when-closing-a-qdialog-with-the-wa_deleteonclose-attribute-set , right?

LRDPRDX

@LRDPRDX Hmm, I discarded it and recreated it again, and it worked. Sorry.