Checkbox UX about openrefine HOT 5 OPEN

I'm not sure I understand "limitation automatically confirmed" but if the intent is that the checkbox just track whether or not the field is populated with a number, perhaps the checkbox is not needed at all.

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The checkbox is not needed at all, but there should be a visual highlight somehow that the input box is filled and that this has Enabled the option. Not sure what the best way to present "Enabled" is. A checkbox works, but we don't want the user to have the sense that it's interactive. We need some other visual indicator to show "Enabled" without the feeling of interactivity needed. I've often seen Red color used around border for required input boxes not filled in. But what about the opposite? Wonder what other frameworks do?

A blue border perhaps when it's filled and effectively "Enabled" with a blue checkbox indicator at the left/right end of the input box, might work well?
Example: https://codepen.io/thadguidry/pen/YzgOaZM

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Removing "good first issue" because there is still an ongoing discussion about the design.

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A similar argument could be made for two nearby fields which default to 0:

In my opinion, a better UI would be to:

1. remove the checkboxes
2. make the entry fields numeric with a default value of 0

This would enable the up/down errors to increment the field value which would make it easy for the user to select the, typically small, values that they want.

The max lines field probably needs to stay a string with a default value of empty which gets validated and parsed to an integer on user entry (unless there's a way to have a numeric field with an empty, non-zero, default).

What brought this issue to mind though is the radio control in the middle controlling whether the first line(s) contain header(s) or not. Although I intellectually known that round means radio button, I inevitably try to uncheck the radio button, before I remember that I need to click column names button (even though I don't want to provide column names). I don't have a proposed solution for this, but seems like we might as well clean up this whole section of the dialog at once.

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I agree, I think we should

1. Removed the checkboxes
2. Make the default lines zero - perhaps this would erase the need for marking it enabled?

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