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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: The new KFileDialog
From:       Maurizio Colucci <seguso.forever () tin ! it>
Date:       2005-02-23 11:54:43
Message-ID: 421C6F03.9070005 () tin ! it
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Maurizio Colucci wrote:
> Thomas Zander wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 11:38:58 +0100, Maurizio Colucci
>> <seguso.forever@tin.it> wrote:
>>
>>> Thomas Zander wrote:

>> All the other widgets effect each other; the 'up' moves up from the
>> current dir, the directory-icon moves into that directory etc. Only
>> the sidebar icons are a) globally defined and b) ignore the current
>> context and simply set it to a new value regardless of current
>> context.
> 
> 
> And why exactly is this distinction important? It is very common for 
> toolbar buttons to be "globally defined" and to "ignore the current 
> context".
> For example, in konqueror the home button is a toolbar button. Where 
> exactly do you see a problem?
> 
> To me, your reasoning proves another thing: since the distinction is 
> _extremely_ uninteresting, useless, and confusing, I would _merge_  
> toolbar and sidebar.

To be clear, I am not saying the sidebar should be removed. I am saying it 
should be removed if the distinction were *only* the one you said. But it 
isn't. The real distinction is that the sidebar contains *places*, the 
toolbar contains *actions*.

Maurizio
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