From kde-usability  Fri Jan 16 14:27:05 2004
From: Luciano Montanaro <mikelima () virgilio ! it>
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 14:27:05 +0000
To: kde-usability
Subject: Re: simpler UI for konqy
Message-Id: <200401161527.05369.mikelima () virgilio ! it>
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On Friday 16 January 2004 14:43, Leo Savernik wrote:
> Am Freitag, 16. Januar 2004 11:07 schrieb Luciano Montanaro:
> [...]
>
> > I don't think konqueror is a mess to mantain; in fact I think it has not
> > changed that much in this release; however, the addition of ksvg, kpdf,
> > fsview have increased its functionality.
>
> No no no. Don't missunderstand me. I didn't say *current* konqueror is a
> mess to maintain. I said, if and only if konqueror should behave like two
> totally different applications depending on mode, it *becomes* a mess to
> maintain.

Right. It also has the potential to aggravate users who (like me) are 
satisfied of the integration, and would rather see more of that. What I'd 
like is work to make it more usable as a file manager/viewer.
I already use it for the web and for searching files visually (that is, when I 
need to find a file by its look) for I prefer bash for general file 
management. In this sense "specialised" views have to improve, not removed as 
often suggested. I use the Cervisia part quite often, and the various "du" 
modes are impressive too, alhtough currently they don't perform too well...
Integrated a (very simple, that is basic, nothing fancy) photo album 
functionality, as described in the TODO since 3.0, is mostly what I 
personally am still missing.

>
> Konqueror is quite consistent as it is now, and that's as it is intended.
>

Good.

As for the problems for mantainment, well, I think who most feels the urge to 
have a separate browser, could as well start coding it on kdenonbeta. I'm 
sure that if the resulting program is found useful and ready, it will be 
shipped with the upcoming KDE versions. This has also the advantage that it 
could be shipped separately in the possibly long time until next KDE release.

Ciao,
Luciano
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