From kde-core-devel Wed Feb 03 04:15:10 2010 From: marcel partap Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 04:15:10 +0000 To: kde-core-devel Subject: Re: Review Request: Add "Open With" actions to KFileDialog context Message-Id: <4B68F84E.4010506 () gmx ! net> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-core-devel&m=126517058915240 > is this something that people actually do? YES!!! This always has been the biggest strength of KDE3: provide all possible functionality everywhere plausible. It was so cool - every simple task would use one or two mouse/keyboard actions less than on windows... With KDE4, the opposite direction has been taken - simplicity is now considered the sane default - which SUCKS!, imho. It is always easier to take features out than to cram everything in and still make it work efficiently (while looking good). To me, this adaption of the Win/Mac/GNOME attitude is a great loss to KDE. Screwing the die-hard power users in favor of 'joe user' might not hurt the market share, but it surely raises averse emotions in some. Alas, we seem to be in the minority so not much hope this direction will change. > it at least doesn't match the stated purpose of these dialogs. Well who cares about the intended purpose of the dialog - if i see files anywhere, i *expect* to have the *freedom* of applying any file operation i might deem fit. Not being able to do that always is a great cause of annoyance. See GTK file dialogs, for really bad example... ^^ regards, marcel.