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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: KFileDialog toolbar
From:       "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () olympusproject ! org>
Date:       2002-06-29 21:31:38
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On June 29, 2002 12:34, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Saturday 29 June 2002 10:34 am, Marten Klencke wrote:
> > You're definitely right :-) I've wondered the same thing myself, as
> > making a new directory is a very common task. It is not directly obvious
> > that the new directory-button can be found in the gear-menu.
> > (this is btw also very annoying in Mozilla. No new-directory button in
> > the save-as box).
>
> I really wonder what the concept behind the Gear-menu is. I expected it to
> be some sort of "configuration" menu, but in that case "New Directory" and
> "Delete" don't belong there at all. Neither does "Properties" actually.

it mirrors the menu in the file manager, it seems, which has the same ordering 
of items. this is good for learnability. on the other hand, the icon itself 
is probably misleading and a lot of functionality is compressed into that one 
menu. one could break it out into two menus perhaps ... with the config items 
in one and the action items in the other. if we do that, that menu should be 
exposed to subclasses so programs like kedits that add other action items can 
add it to that menu.

> Hmm.. it seems the Alt-return shortcut is broken too.

it works here... but my build is ~3 days old.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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