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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: KFileDialog toolbar
From:       David Hugh-Jones <hughjonesd () yahoo ! co ! uk>
Date:       2002-07-02 14:06:26
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On Sunday 30 June 2002 5:54 am, Irwin K wrote:
> I've assembled pictures of existing "Open File" dialog boxes from various
> locations.
>
> The page puts all of the pictures inline, so please excuse the transfer
> times... I did the page as a quick hack.
>
> http://yetta.net/~arcana/kde/openfile
>
> As you can see, KDE doesn't necessarily have the most complex dialogs (or
> the simplest).  Make sure you look at the Windows dialogs: they embody most
> of the features that we are discussing the placement of and can give us
> some ideas of how they placed a lot of items into very few buttons.

Really interesting to see these.

Can I make a plea for one feature from previous Microsoft file open dialogs? I 
would really like to have cut, copy and paste available from the dialog. I 
don't need to have buttons - RMB options would be fine.

I don't have a strong justification for this beyond "I would find it useful", 
but there is one argument against it, that I think is mistaken. This is: "the 
file open/save dialog is not meant for moving files, it is just meant for 
opening or saving a file". The problem with this is that when you come to 
open or save a file, you may realise the need to do some copying, pasting, 
renaming etc. For example, you save a picture file and realise that you want 
to reorganise some other files into two new folders, "text" and "pictures". 
Or you spend ages looking for a file that is badly named, and once you find 
it, you want to rename it.

I also think these are good reasons for having the "delete" and "new folder" 
functionality available, as against what someone said in an earlier posting.

best wishes,
- -- 
David Hugh-Jones
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