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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Impressions about KDE 3.1 beta 2
From:       Lauri Watts <lauri () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-10-14 12:34:12
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On Monday 14 October 2002 14.10, Gav Wood wrote:

> correct me if i'm wrong (as i'm sure you will anyway), but does kaboodle
> offer any significant improvement over noatun? what's more could this not
> simply be implemented into noatun?

"Can be implemented in noatun" and "Would ever be even considered to be 
implemented in noatun by it's author and maintainer" are not the same thing.

Kaboodle lets me quickly open one single file.  I don't have to add it to a 
playlist, I don't have to save the playlist I've got to somewhere, make a new 
playlist, add the file I want to play, (by now I usually forget why I wanted 
to play it in the first place).  Or worse, lose the playlist in noatun 
entirely, because it's cleared and replaced by a playlist of one file, then 
hope I saved the old playlist, and go find it, and load it up again.

I often want to play one file, one time, immediately.  Kaboodle fulfills that, 
noatun does not. A one shot player is a really handy thing once you're used 
to it.  

> a) an application and not just a part

Yes.  Why can't I be able to fire off "kaboodle ~/somefile" in alt+f2 minicli, 
or from a terminal.  If it's a part only, I'll have to find something that 
embeds it, start that, navigate to the file I want to hear.   That would not 
be at all convenient.

> b) startable from the app-centric k-menu and not just from konq

Why should I only be able to start kaboodle from konqueror?  Why can't I have 
it as a standalone *and* from Konqueror.  

Regards,
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Lauri Watts
KDE Documentation: http://i18n.kde.org/doc/
KDE on FreeBSD: http://freebsd.kde.org/
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