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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: all actions always in the menus ?
From:       Sander Devrieze <s.devrieze () pandora ! be>
Date:       2004-02-25 22:54:43
Message-ID: 200402252354.51894.s.devrieze () pandora ! be
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Op woensdag 25 februari 2004 18:08, schreef Alexander Neundorf:
> Hi,
>
> the style guide says: "It is important that all possible actions be
> available!"
>
> I tried to make a very simple konqy xmlui file, in order to turn konqy from
> a swiss-army knife into a very simple browser:
> http://lists.kde.org/?l=kfm-devel&m=107756568029050&w=2
>
> Now this leads to the effect that many functions from konqueror are removed
> from the menus (because they are not absolutely required for a simple
> browser). Some actions (e.g. duplicate tab, close tab) were removed from
> the menu as well, since they are quite obvious available via rmb from the
> tabs. There is even an extra "close tab" button beside the tabs.
>
> So should really *all* actions always be available in the menus ?
> With xmlui we have the chance to create different GUIs for the same app, so
> there should always be one GUI which offers everything in the menus, but
> for modified/spezialized/simplified versions of the GUI IMO this shouldn't
> be a 100%-requirement. We would loose some of the freedom xmlui gives us.

I think Konqueror should go to some kind of plugin system for these extra 
features where people can easily enable/disable plugins via checkboxes in a 
config tab. If people disable it, the plugin will be not loaded in memory and 
there will be no options in the menus.

e.g.:

* Bookmark functionality
* Webmaster stuff (W3C check, DOM, JavaScript Debugger,...)
* Tabbed brosing functionality
* HTML rendering engine: select one in the list: KHTML, Mozilla Gecko, 
Opera,...
* Maybe some more things.

- -- 
Mvg, Sander Devrieze.

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