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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Cervisia and KDE
From:       een3sae () leeds ! ac ! uk
Date:       2004-01-07 17:34:10
Message-ID: 1073496850.3ffc431271eb6 () webmail3 ! leeds ! ac ! uk
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Im new to the list - so apologies if what im proposing may have been  
previously been discussed. 
 
Why does Konqueror set up by default to have an icon for Cervisia on its main  
tool bar (KDE 3.1.4)? As i see it unless an individual is a serious software  
developer, or in the business of compiling software from CVS (and the vast  
majority of your average desktop users are unlikely to fit into either  
category) this is a completely unnecessary thing to have a button for on the  
main toolbar by default.  As it is at the moment this button is just going to  
confuse your average desktop user - it is unclear what it does from looking  
at the icon, and in 99% of cases clicking on it produces a cryptic error  
message ("This is not a CVS directory") 
 
I would suggest that in new KDE releases this button is not included on the  
main toolbar by default, but the menu option in the View>View Mode..>Cervisia  
is retained, with the added option included somewhere (im fairly new to KDE  
so im not sure where you might put such an option) to place a button on the  
toolbar for software developers etc who actually use CVS. 
 
I would also suggest that if a directory is NOT a CVS directory then Konqueror  
should AUTOMATICALLY detect this and grey out the menu option/toolbar button  
for Cervisia so the user cannot select it - rather than allowing the user to  
select it and then flagging up an error message telling them they cant do  
anything, which seems rather pointless. 
 
-=+Stephen Ellwood+=-   
 
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