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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Small thoughts
From:       Netalix <netalix () yahoo ! com>
Date:       2002-05-30 12:43:22
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It has struck me that the default icon for hiddent system files (Esp:
.bash_profile .bashrc etc) should somehow reflect there nessesary
nature. Perhaps making a blue icon for .files would be appropriate.

-kjp


--- Alistair Davidson <lord_inh@yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> I was looking at XP the other day, and I was quite impressed with the
> way they've made the window close button red. Any chance of us doing
> that?
> 
> The ability to add horizontal bars to kicker / the kmenu would be
> useful.. that may sound like a feature request, but I'm asking for
> very
> good useability reasons (it would allow grouping of menu items) so I
> figured I may as well stick it in this email.
> 
> Someone mentioned a while ago that they found users would sometimes
> delete config files in the $HOME because they didn't put them there
> so
> they assumed they weren't important. I can easily see that happening
> if
> a user hits "Show hidden files" by mistake... the obvious solution,
> to
> me, is to add a confirmation dialog when the user tries to delete a
> hidden file that says "This file is probably a system file, deleting
> it
> could harm your system."
> 
> I'm sure I had more thoughts, I'll post if they come back to me...
> 
> -- 
> Al
> 
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