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Subject: Re: Constructive feedback from Eugenia
From: Rolf Magnus <ramagnus () t-online ! de>
Date: 2002-07-12 10:26:45
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On Friday 12 July 2002 03:14, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> Surprisingly we already do this, what confused me though is that if there
> is only one application (KPackage in my test case), we show
> "Open With..."
> "KPackage"
>
> But if there are two applications it becomes:
> "Open With >"
> "KWrite"
> "Kompare"
> ---------
> "Other"
>
> I think such self-changing menu is confusing.
Especially, the first part is missing something important.
> Also, note that the
> "KPackage" in the case above is redundant since the "Open in New Window"
> option (Currently named "Open" here on my desktop, yay!) does the same.
But wouldn't that be just the self-changing menu you're talking about? And you
don't know that "Open" will open it in KPackage. I'd just expect all apps
that can open a file to be listed there, even if there is only one. It's just
more consistant.
> Anyway, I think it would be better to always have the menu the same, so
> that the first case would look like:
> "Open With >"
> "KPackage"
> ---------
> "Other"
>
> I'm not sure how the "Open With" section should look like if there is no
> application listed at all. Strictly speaking you wouldn't need it at all
> then, because the "Open" option would act as "Open With" already anyway.
Maybe let them act the same. I think it's not a good idea to remove "Open
With" completely in this case, but
"Open With >"
---------
"Other"
Also looks kind of stupid, even without the separator. So probably, both
"Open" and "Open With" should directly open the selction dialog.
> In the case of kdesktop, the "Open" option (previously "Open In New
> Window") could also be named "Open with <appname>" but I'm not sure if that
> extra information is helpfull or distracting.
Maybe just "Open (<appname>)", so there is a hint about which app is default.
I don't think it's distracting.
> Should the "Open With >" submenu be located directly under the "Open"
> option?
Yes.
--
"The reason that you see open source there at all is because we came in and
said there should be a platform that's identical with millions and millions
of machines, and the BIOS of that should be open to everybody to use, and all
the extensibility should be there."
(Bill Gates)
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