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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: RE: Some Inspiration for Konqi Developers
From:       Dawit Alemayehu <adawit () earthlink ! net>
Date:       2000-03-10 23:57:08
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On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Rivyn (Casey Shobe) wrote:
> On Fri, 10 Mar 2000, Christopher Molnar wrote:
> > > 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
> 
> Konq is meant to manipulate files in the manner that a konsole does, only
> graphically.  Therefore, a konsole subwindow or a mini-cli fits right in IMHO. 
> They might allow easier interaction with some programs than the graphical
> method.

A very good example for this that was mentioned before is when you want to
change the permission on a bunch of files/directories at the same time.  It is
no doubt much easier to do this through the command line than the GUI
interface...

Regards,
Dawit A.

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