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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: RE: Some Inspiration for Konqi Developers
From:       Rivyn (Casey Shobe) <rivyn () mailandnews ! com>
Date:       2000-03-10 16:43:28
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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,

I am.  why start an embedded kword when a standalone kword does the job equally
well?

Konqueror is a file/web browser, therefore, utilities for this purpose should
be embedded, such as terminal emulation, an ftp client, http client, local file
browser, etc.  Then again, if you click a link in konqueror, since konq is
already open, why not embed a kword in a separate subwindow (see the button-bar
idea).  I don't really think that's a great idea though

>  but I just wanted to throw that out 
> there for discussion before clicking on an mp3 player embeded kmp3 in
> konq.

That would be interesting - have a subwindow open up...heh.  Have a look at
knapster (see freshmeat - I don't remember the URL) sometime, you can
right-click files and click play/stop on them - it uses mpg123 in the
background.  The only bad thing is the lack of a status.

> 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. 

FileRunner looks horrid, but there's a lot of good ideas there, most of which
have already been implemented in konqi.

- Rivyn [ Casey Allen Shobe ]
- rivyn@mailandnews.com [ UIN: 1494523 ]

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