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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Cleaning up KDE: Konqueror-Toolbars and the Kicker
From:       Michael Thaler <michael.thaler () ph ! tum ! de>
Date:       2004-03-30 17:27:16
Message-ID: 200403301927.16630.michael.thaler () physik ! tu-muenchen ! de
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I followed the discussion about removing options from konqueror toolbar and I 
have to admit that there are really some unnecessary options.

copy/cut/paste are accessible from the menu (they have to remain in the menu 
because the menu entries show the shortcuts) and they are so common that 
every user knows how to access them by key combinations sooner or later. I 
think I never used copy/cut/paste from the main konqueror toolbar either.

Print and print frame are two other options that do not really belong to the 
main konqueror toolbar. Printing is an slow operation so it is not necessary 
to access it as quick as possible.

For other options it is harder to decide if they should go to the toolbar or 
not. And this raises an important point: there is a lot of functionality that 
users maybe want to access by toolbar. But currently it is hard for users to 
know about some functionality. Actions can be added to toolbars using 
configure toolbars. This is pretty simple but of the average user it is 
probably often not clear what the action you can add, actually is. I think it 
would be very nice if the configure toolbar dialog would show a short 
description what the action actually does. For example, in the Konqueror 
configure toolbars dialog you find the action "remove folder properties". 
What does that actually do? It is not even clear to me what it is doing 
ithout trying it out.

In my opinion, the KDE default toolbars should be as simple as possible, only 
offering default actions that are really necessary, but it should be obvious 
for users how to add more actions to the toolbars and what these actions are 
doing.

Take care,
Michael
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