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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    [Bug 165207] Recursive pages in Notebooks
From:       Dotan Cohen <kde-2 () dotancohen ! com>
Date:       2008-07-03 12:42:50
Message-ID: 20080703124250.27016.qmail () ktown ! kde ! org
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------- Additional Comments From kde-2 dotancohen com  2008-07-03 14:42 -------
> Is there really an advantage to adding text to books? 

Yes. For one thing, on entries with a 'main page' you are saving the user a click by \
having the main page loaded when the book icon is clicked.

Note that for terminology purposes in this bug, we are confusing the terms 'page' and \
'book'. So I will just use the term 'page' with the assumption that a 'page' could be \
either a node or a leaf. The current behaviour of the app is that nodes are called \
'books' and cannot contain text. Leafs are called 'pages' and can contain text.

If on the Thunderbird page I have information regarding Thunderbird usage and tricks, \
and on the Maxima page I have information regarding Maxima usage and tricks, the I \
would like the Firefox page to have information regarding Firefox usage and tips, \
regardless of the fact that there is a subpage for Firefox concerning it's \
extensions.

With the current setup I need either:
1) Both a Firefox Page and a Firefox Book. The gets unwieldy very quickly.
-or-
2) A Firefox book, with a page that I consider the 'main page'. Then, in other \
instances where I would have a 'main page' I will have to remember the name that I \
used for the 'main page'. Did I call them Index? Did I call them Home? Did I call \
them Main? If I have Index under Thunderbird, and Home under Firefox, are they both \
the 'main page' for those apps? Maybe the Index page under Thunderbird relates to the \
file index, and maybe the Home page under Firefox refers to my homepage?

In both these cases the folder tree becomes longer then it would otherwise be. Might \
I ask, what is the advantage to _not_ being able to write on a tree node (book), only \
a tree leaf, other than the fact that it is the current behaviour?

Thanks, Stephen, I appreciate the fact that you are considering this wish.


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