From kde-usability Fri Jan 16 23:10:02 2004 From: "Max O'Shea" Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 23:10:02 +0000 To: kde-usability Subject: Re: simpler UI for konqy Message-Id: <200401162310.05032.maxo_lists () yahoo ! co ! uk> X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-usability&m=107429466728098 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Whatever you do, you do _not_ want another browser. That will just confuse and complicate matters. Here is what is probably the solution: When you view a web page in Konqueror, the toolbar does change a bit. You get a few extra buttons etc. etc. Same with file browsing. I think the only main problems are the up button and the home button. So when you're web browsing, the up button should by _default_ not be there (so you can add it if you want.) As for the home button problem, there should be two home buttons - one that is used when file browsing and goes to ~ . And one for web browsing that goes to your home page. Depending on whether you're file browsing or web browsing, one or the other will be there. And you can add the other one if you want as well, which makes everyone happy. As for the menu that comes up when you right-click, I think that is a completely different matter that needs to be sorted out throughout the whole of KDE, not just Konqueror. On Friday 16 January 2004 16:47, Carlos Leonhard Woelz wrote: > On Friday 16 January 2004 12:27, Luciano Montanaro wrote: > > 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. > > We are talking about ui only. Konqueror has most of the necessary > technology to make a simpler browser a reality. The xmlui is in place. If > you can create different configurations for the configuration modules, the > context menus and the sidebar you can transform Konqueror without one line > of programming in any viewing application you want, not just a new browser. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFACG9KZm9WCsJi0AIRAsTqAKCNF3PaJwuDjZKIfJsaPU6UXJn2xgCfe5VL 1HbceOj87uX6g3bbJK477wY= =oUch -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ kde-usability mailing list kde-usability@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-usability