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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Problem with kfm unifying dirs
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () ens ! ascom ! ch>
Date:       1999-04-16 15:50:02
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Mathias Kettner wrote:
> 
> kfm has a behaviour that is intended to be user friendly:
> 
> If you select file:/opt/kde/share/applnk/, what you see is a kind of
> unification of /opt/kde/share/applnk/ and ~/.kde/share/applnk. System-
> and Userinstalled icons are mixed up. On the first view, everything
> seems to be nice for the user, but the Idea of showing two directories
> in one window is very confusing.

The problem here is that two concepts have been mixed without making
this
clear:

Concept 1. KFM is a file system browser.

Concept 2. KFM acts as an application link editor when in the
application
link directory.

Perhaps we could take away some of the confusion by introducing a new
URL
"Applications:". If selected KFM shows the two merged directories. 
If one of the two directories are selected, KFM just shows the files in
it
as.. well.. files.

Any other ideas to improve this? Perhaps the Corel people have some good 
suggestions?

Cheers,
Waldo
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