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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: stupid idea about profiles
From:       David Faure <faure () kde ! org>
Date:       2003-12-18 10:52:14
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On Thursday 18 December 2003 05:09, Ralf Nolden wrote:
> My suggestion then is to make the browser mode the default when starting 
> konqueror from the commandline and to use the profile name when starting it 
> as a filemanager. Even better would be a program (could be even a shell 
> script, stupid like it sounds) called "kfilemanager" to start konqueror in 
> filemanager mode.
> 
> Comments ? I know this is a totally rediculous idea but to most people 
> starting konqueror they want to use it as a browser because they don't even 
> know what a filemanager is good for (especially commandline people)

Why not. After all if one wants a filemanager one can just type "konqueror ."
(or any other path) - so, there is even no need for a filemanager shellscript.

Patch attached.

-- 
David FAURE, faure@kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).

["konq_main.cc.diff" (text/x-diff)]

Index: konq_main.cc
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/kde/kdebase/konqueror/konq_main.cc,v
retrieving revision 1.135
diff -u -p -r1.135 konq_main.cc
--- konq_main.cc	14 Nov 2003 23:42:53 -0000	1.135
+++ konq_main.cc	18 Dec 2003 10:51:13 -0000
@@ -137,8 +137,15 @@ extern "C" int kdemain( int argc, char *
              }
              else if (!args->isSet("silent"))
              {
-                 KonqMainWindow *mainWindow = new KonqMainWindow;
-                 mainWindow->show();
+                 // By default try to open in webbrowser mode. People can use \
"konqueror ." to get a filemanager. +                 QString profile = \
"webbrowsing"; +                 QString profilePath = locate( "data", \
QString::fromLatin1("konqueror/profiles/")+profile ); +                 if ( \
!profilePath.isEmpty() ) { +                     \
KonqMisc::createBrowserWindowFromProfile( profilePath, profile ); +                 } \
else { +                     KonqMainWindow *mainWindow = new KonqMainWindow;
+                     mainWindow->show();
+                 }
              }
              kdDebug(1202) << "main() -> no args" << endl;
          }



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