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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: [patch] to add "close on click" functionality to konqueror
From:       Raphael Langerhorst <raphael-langerhorst () gmx ! at>
Date:       2004-07-19 19:29:48
Message-ID: 200407192129.48398.raphael-langerhorst () gmx ! at
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On Monday 19 July 2004 16:32, Damien Uern wrote:
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> On Mon, 19 Jul 2004 11:37 pm, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> > dear damien,
> >
> > your idea about
> >
> > 	Devices (links to the devices:/ url)
> > 	Personal Files (links to ~)
> > 	Documents
> > 	Music
> > 	Pictures
> > 	Settings
> >
> > makes a lot of sense [yes it's not new, but it's doable].
> >
> > i am also going to have to somehow hack into konqueror a means
> > to TOTALLY remove user access to /bin, /var/ in fact everything
> > but /home, /cdrom and /floppy.
> >
> > whilst also still making it possible to run programs, of course,
> > so running konqueror in a chroot jail isn't an option to solve
> > that issue.
> >
> > if the top-level were as you suggest, that'd be "Job Done".
> >
> > if the Devices only showed mounted drives / active devices that'd
> > be even better.
> >
> > the reason for that is because when i view devices at the moment,
> > users are presented with /dev/hda1 /dev/hda2 /dev/hda3 /dev/hda5
> > /dev/hda7 /dev/cdrom and it's just... too much.
> >
> > ... you think i want to explain those to dumb-ass idiots used to
> > windows, or to people who've never _had_ a computer before?
> >
> > :)
> >
> > l.
>
> Heh, well in Windows they do get views of all partitions, CDROM drives,
> etc. In devices it should show those things, but with decent names, e.g.
>
> Hard Disk 1a
> Hard Disk 2a
> Hard Disk 1b
> CDROM Drive 1
> DVD Drive
> CD WRITER
> USB Storage Device
> Canon A70 Digital Camera
> Network Mount on "Winserver"
>
>
> etc. One thing I forgot for that hierachy is of course the "network"
> meta-directory, for browsing the network.
>
> Another one that I thought of could also be Mail. Emails are just files
> arent they? So if kmail provides the parser back end, you can browse your
> inbox/other boxes in the file manager, compose a new email, etc (click on
> "compose new email" would just launch the composer window of kmail).
>
> I'm thinking, everything that is related to managing files, should be done
> by the file manager. But why do we have music library management programs
> (e.g. amaroK, itunes), photo library management programs, etc etc. It's
> because management at the raw file system level of folders/files is too
> tedious. So we bring file management to a whole new level by abstracting
> above and providing views actually relevent to the content being filed.

What do you think about logical desktop (http://logicaldesktop.sf.net)?

Raphael

>
> Hopefully in the next month or so when I'm not so busy I'll start writing
> some prototype code.
>
> Damien
>
> - --
> Leela: Bender, why are you spending so much time in the bathroom? Are
>  you jacking on in there?
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