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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: [RFC]Fwd: [Bug 8333] setting 'home page' is unintuitive]
From:       James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj () acm ! org>
Date:       2004-07-22 21:53:59
Message-ID: 41003777.5020303 () acm ! org
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Datschge wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 July 2004 07:08, James Richard Tyrer wrote:
> 
>>------- Additional Comments From cplanken chello nl  2004-07-21
>>11:50 ------- In reply comment #33; the ability of assigning
>>different URLs for the HOME button for each profile seems like a
>>good solution to me.
> 
> 
> In that case the place for assigning the URL for the home button 
> should be moved to the profile configuration dialog, otherwise the 
> confusion about the non-obvious home URL - profile link will 
> overweight its usefulness.

Actually, although I think that the KCM could use a some minor changes, there
still needs to be a Home URL setting (as it currently is) but this would
probably be better called Default Home URL.  This is what would be used if the
profile didn't have a URL saved in it.

> Other than that I'm personally at odd with this suggestion since this 
> basically turns the home button into a very limited bookmark system 
> (but I'm biased since I consider the home button useless anyway, I 
> removed the home button from all profiles and just use the bookmark 
> menu).

Yes, this could be accomplished by using bookmarks, however, it is a way of
directly accessing the URL saved in the profiles and therefore it is more useful
than doing the same thing with a bookmark folder.  And, as an additional comment
pointed out, this allows you to access these URLs without changing the profile
although I'm not sure if that is needed.

I wouldn't say that I am biased about this, but I would say that I wouldn't
probably be making use of this feature much (I don't save a URL in the
webbrowsing profile) so I really am just trying to facilitate finding out what
other users want or need -- my personal opinion about this is that I don't need
the feature, but others seem to think they do.

--
JRT

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