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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: konqueror - "Split view"
From:       Ferdinand Gassauer <gassauer () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-06-26 4:53:36
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On Monday 25 June 2001 20:49, David Faure wrote:
> On Monday 25 June 2001 21:24, Ferdinand Gassauer wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > The "split view" feature of konqueror opens a new view with the same
> > content as the previous active view.
> >
> > IMHO this should be changed (for KDE 2.2) because
> > *) if the URL transfer speed is slow (camera) and/or remote (ftp, http,
> > smb), time and bandwidth are wasted (unless the focus is moved to the new
> > window and the process is stopped manualy.
>
> Michael Brade is adding caching to KDirLister to improve this.

for KDE 2.2 ?

>
> > *) it is extremly unlikely that the same URL is needed twice (just my
> > experience of using konqueror since  the early KDE2 betas)
>
> Well, but what would appear in the new view then ? Nothing ? Some parts
> don't support that very well.
Hmm - I configured the startup of konqueror-web browser to show an empty page 
- no problems so far.

>
> > Hence I propose to open an empty view and make it the active one.
> > I think we discussed this with David Faure long ago - but without having
> > found a conclusion (and having seen all the possiblities and limitations
> > of the iosalves;-).
>
> I think that with a proper directory cache for listing this problem will
> simply go away.

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regards
Ferdinand Gassauer
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