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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: sane defaults
From:       Alexander Neundorf <neundorf () kde ! org>
Date:       2005-01-18 18:29:02
Message-ID: 200501181929.02410.neundorf () kde ! org
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On Tuesday 18 January 2005 19:12, David Faure wrote:
> On Tuesday 18 January 2005 18:54, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > On Tuesday 18 January 2005 18:22, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > > This wouldn't be the case if we would have a "parent directory" item in
> > > the file views (formerly known as "..").
> >
> > Yes, I think that would make navigation easier, wouldn't it? Especially
> > in the file-dialog you need to move the mouse quite a bit to go a
> > directory up.... and with keyboard only it's not straightforward at all.
>
> I think that showing a ".." directory is an outdated (xfm) concept which
> leads to all sorts of trouble. You can select ".." and delete it together
> with the rest of the files? You can move ".." to another directory?
> And it's really not obvious what ".." is to most people (non-unix-geeks).
> IMHO a modern filemanager/filedialog shouldn't show ".."

It doesn't have to be "..", it could also be "Go one level up" with a nice 
icon...
And it would make navigating faster. 

Bye
Alex
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