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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    RE: RE: Some Inspiration for Konqi Developers
From:       David Faure <David.Faure () cramersystems ! com>
Date:       2000-03-10 16:28:51
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> 	Umm.. maybe I'm being too old school, but are you guys sure
> you want to embed konsole into konq?  I realize it's being done
> through parts and all, but is konq turning into the "do-it" app?  I
> started thinking along those lines when I clicked on a text file the
> other day and kword appeared embedded in konq to view the file.  I'm
> not saying all this is a bad idea, but I just wanted to throw 
> that out 
> there for discussion before clicking on an mp3 player embeded kmp3 in
> konq.  Should there be a line drawn somewhere?  Personally I don't
> like the way FileRunner looked.  Konqi is very sleek compared to
> that.  Anyway, just my $.02. -- Dan

Even with an optional command line (or shell), konqueror is never
going to look like FileRunner :-)))
(No offense intended, in case the author is reading. The UIs are
quite different, that's what I mean).

I do think that being _able_ to have a command line in konqueror
would be great. How often do you start using konqy and then realise
that what you want to do (say, grep) can't be done from there ?
Ok, you can Ctrl+T, but then you are annoyed by this additionnal
window, etc.
konqueror needs a command line. Would you reimplement it from scratch,
or reuse existing code ?

This is not about turning one app into the "do-it-all" app.
It's just about adding features without duplicating code
(which is the mother of all evils, to me!).

David.

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