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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: KFileDialog toolbar
From:       "Chris January" <chris () atomice ! net>
Date:       2002-07-05 23:37:03
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> > 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.
You don't actually need this - you can have a "Open this folder in a new
window" or similar option that actually opens a Konqueror window. You can do
all your file operations in there and close the window. This means there's
only one place where such actions take place. That way you don't need to add
cut, copy, paste, delete, new folder, etc. to the file dialog itself.

Chris



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