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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Idea for new Sidebar in Konqueror
From:       "Christopher Young" <cyoung () linuxnetworker ! com>
Date:       2003-11-12 21:09:01
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Personally, I think this is a REALLY good concept.  I like the larger icons
and the text labels beside them.  Wondering how internationalization would
be affected, however I this this look like a very promising approach.

I also agree about there being some other component that check fstab for
things.  Maybe something daemonized that watches fstab for entries
(FAM-based maybe) and can be queried via DCOP for the current mountpoints
and stuff  (this was other KDE apps could potenially use it to show
'Devices' sections as source/targets for files).  Anyway...

Chris
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Fabrice Mous" <fabricemous@xs4all.nl>
To: <kde-usability@mail.kde.org>; "Richard Spindler" <csad2715@uibk.ac.at>;
<kfm-devel@mail.kde.org>
Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 7:36 AM
Subject: Re: Idea for new Sidebar in Konqueror


> On Monday 03 November 2003 09:11, Richard Spindler wrote:
> > Hi,
> > sorry, I forgot to add a subject line to my Message
> > Here is it again
> >
> > Richard Spindler
>
> <copy-paste>
>
> Hi,
> this is my first message to both kfm-devel and kde-usability so
> please excuse if my comments und ideas are stupid, I startet
> reading these lists today :)
>
> http://homepage.uibk.ac.at/~csad2715/konqui_neu.jpg
>
> this is a mockup-screenshot, of an enhanced Konquerer Sidepanel.
> The Sidebar Tabs are labeled, because I think the Icons alone are
> often misleading.
> The 'Computer'-Tab is opened, because it's Design is very different to
> the Konqueror as it exists today.
> it features serveral big entries, one for the Home-Folder, one for
> every removable Media, the same for mounted DOS/Windows Harddrives,
> and one for the Root-Folder.
> I admit that I do not like tree-widgets, but I know some persons
> who do like them, therefore I proposed a feature that I think makes
> everyone happy :)
> Every big entry has a small [+] Button, that opens a tree of the
> chosen folder.
>
> Some Words about a possible implementation of this sidepanel. I think
> it's neccessary to provide some 'magic'-code that scans fstab and
> creates the initial entries. But I think it should be configurable too,
> because some People (like me) use kernelpatches like supermount(automatic
> mounting and unmounting of removable media) and every sort of magic-code
> will most likely fail to detect such mount-points in a proper way.
> There should also be an easy way to configure the sidepanel systemwide,
> because non-root users are probably not familiar with UNIX-style mount-
> points and stuff.
>
> I hope you like this ideas
>
> regards
> Richard Spindler
>
> </copy-paste>
> -- 
> Fabrice Mous
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