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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Cervisia and KDE
From:       Christian Loose <christian.loose () hamburg ! de>
Date:       2004-01-07 18:15:33
Message-ID: 200401071915.34137.christian.loose () hamburg ! de
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Am Mittwoch, 7. Januar 2004 18:34 schrieb een3sae@leeds.ac.uk:
> 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")
>

This is easily fixed: don't install kdesdk as average desktop user. If you are 
not a developer then you don't need. This will get rid of the "view mode 
toolbar button" for Cervisia.

Another solution is to remove the embedding of the view modes. But this would 
remove all view mode buttons from the toolbar (like FSViewPart).

> 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+=-  

It would mean a big performance hit to the mimetype detection system. Please 
also see http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70495 that talks about the 
integration of Cervisia in Konqueror's context menu.

-- 
Christian Loose
Cervisia maintainer - http://www.kde.org/apps/cervisia

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