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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: RE: Some Inspiration for Konqi Developers
From:       Simon Hausmann <shaus () helios ! med ! Uni-Magdeburg ! DE>
Date:       2000-03-10 16:31:37
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Dan is very right. IMHO one of the very most important rules of Konqueror
is to stay a browsing-only app. It's meant to view, and only view, all
sorts of stuff. It is not meant to do something ;-) (well, konqueror is
meant to do something, but the user is not meant to edit documents or so
;-)

File management is an exception here, because of historical reasons
;-) and because .. well.. some app has to implement it ;-)

One way to sort of stress this point is that all components which are
embedded into Konqueror are so-called ReadOnly parts.

A terminal emulation might be a second exception, I don't know.
Hoever I (personally) would never embed a terminal emulation into
konqueror, because I wouldn't see any sense in it (that way I would also
want to embed kicker and kdesky in it ;-))

I guess Dawit's plan is to rather add a mini-cli (!=xterm) , or?


Just my 0.02 cents :-)


Ciao,
 Simon

On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Dan Pilone wrote:

> 	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
> 

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