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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: suggestion for creating shortcuts
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2000-06-22 14:47:28
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You mean activating the third tab when the dialog shows up ?

Maybe in that case.... but in many other cases the name is important.
And even in this case it can be - the whole point in "captions", for instance
in bookmarks, is that one may want to set a name different than the
actual URL (which may be long, ugly, contain a query, etc.)

I'm not convinced.

On Thu, Jun 22, 2000 at 04:41:50PM +0200, joerg habenicht wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I created some shortcuts on the desktop for testing.
> At first I was asked for the name of the shortcut, some lables later
> for the application or URL I'd like to start.
> 
> My suggestion:
> Wouldn't it be more intuitive for inexperimented users to ask for the
> target URL or application at first ? And afterwards try to create the name
> MY URL.desktop automaticly ?
> This way users don't have to bother about the names of the desktop files.
> And the names on the desktop describe the target they are pointing to.
> (I just left the name for the desktop file "as is")
> 
> I used KDE1.91 for the experiment.
> 
> cu,
> Joerg
> 
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