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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Default configuration for Konqueror Toolbars
From:       Casey Allen Shobe <cshobe () softhome ! net>
Date:       2003-12-04 8:18:12
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On Thu, November 27 2003 20:13, Simon Perreault wrote:
> I would change one thing to make it even better: remove the Enter-like
> button at the right of the location bar. Nobody uses this button. At the
> very least it should be moved so that it's next to the location widget and
> the K thingie is flush to the right.

I think the only reason it's there at all is because IE has a Go button and 
somebody wanted to copy it.  As such, it shouldn't be removed.  However I 
would love to see it disappear as it's the first thing I remove from my 
configuration, regardless of which browser I happen to be using.  This button 
is horrible.  If you're typing an address anyways, why would you ever want to 
reach for the mouse instead of simply pressing the enter button?  Maybe if 
you pasted in the link, but most people I know still reach for the enter 
button instinctively because they are used to typing addresses manually all 
day.  While I'm ranting about this button, I'll also say that the icon is 
horrible.  When I fire up IE, I know what that button does.  When I fire up 
konqueror, I sit there and stare at it for a minute with a question mark 
floating above my head, eventually moving the mouse over it and waiting for a 
tooltip to appear.  If I've not used IE before, the tooltip 'Go' is nearly 
useless.  Go where?  Will this bring up a URL dialog?  Maybe it will take me 
to the Konqueror home page?  The only Enter button I've seen that looks like 
that (upside down L shape) is on a keyboard from the late 1970s.  In the 80s 
the mirrored L shape was all I really saw, and in the 90s the smaller enter 
key sized about the same as Caps Lock grew in popularity.  If I squint very 
hard, I can see a very small arrow on the key.  Looks kinda like the symbol 
on my enter key, but I may not even realize that if I notice this small 
detail.  In fact until this E-mail it never occured to me that that was a 
representation of an Enter function even though I've seen it hundreds of 
times.  I just saw it as some weird ugly icon, guessed it's meaning based on 
familiarity with IE and the icon's placement and tooltip.  Without prior 
Windows experience, I would be at a complete loss.

So yes, I strongly advocate it's removal from the default toolbar, and 
somebody making a better icon and tooltip besides.

-- 
Casey Allen Shobe
cshobe@softhome.net
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