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Subject: RE: khelpcenter - hack ;-)
From: Simon Hausmann <shaus () helios ! med ! Uni-Magdeburg ! DE>
Date: 1999-11-18 9:24:08
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On Thu, 18 Nov 1999, David Faure wrote:
> > On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> >
> > > Hmm, am I right that konqueror doesn't load the icon view code when
> > > started
> > > in "doc mode"? Then I don't see the difference to a khelpcenter.
> > >
> > > I even think mhk should rewrite kcontrol to embed directly into
> > > konqueror! :)
> >
> > Yes, and then we dock kdesktop, and make konqueror fullsize,
> > and we have another desktop environment... :-)
> >
> > Without joking: I always dreamed of
> >
> > config://airbag.lst.de/Network/Samba
> >
> > but this would not only require embedding, but remote admin as
> > well. Something for KDE 3.0 :-)
> >
> >
> > Bye,
> > Matthias.
> >
> >
> > PS: I will think about this embedding.
>
> Really ? I love the idea of embedding any kind of browser/viewer in
> konqueror,
> that's what it's for, and help pages are designed to be browsed/viewed.
> But kcontrol is nothing like that... It is a *very extended* dialog box, but
> still something like a dialog box, with OK, cancel, isModified(), ....
>
> Wait for the next kparts, it will allow 'read-write' parts whereas konqueror
> currently deals with read-only browsers/viewers. Or feel free to contribute
> to the kparts hacking itself, of course !
IMHO David is right.
According to Waldo's initial Konqueror design document, Konqueror is
supposed to browse stuff, not to modify things.
I guess an embedded kcontrol probably "violates" this read-only rule?
Ciao,
Simon
P.S.: Yes, file management is a (historical) exception ;-)
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