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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Fwd: Konqueror informative location bar
From:       Florian Graessle <holehan () gmx ! de>
Date:       2005-08-27 9:14:14
Message-ID: 43102EE6.3090606 () gmx ! de
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Sean Lynch wrote:
> A proposal I suggest is to supply the user with some feedback as to the error
> without interrupting them to actually fix the error.  The suggestion (right
> side of link) is instead of having a popup window, konqueror will color
> the background of the location bar, put the right-aligned descriptive message
> that is slightly grayed and italicized (just like how the webpage titles are
> done on the dropdown and in firefox) and change the icon to the right from a
> folder to a warning sign (how do you know what you tried to type is infact a
> folder anyways, might be a URL, etc).
> 
> Anyways, see the reference image as its pretty self explanatory and let me 
> know what you think.  BTW, this so far would apply to the Malformed URL and 
> Protocol not supported popups.

I was thinking about something like that myself for the search bar but
found a few issues I couldn't resolve yet:

*Space issues: If the location bar is pretty small or the link the user
typed in fairly long, the warning message inside the text field poses
space issues. The question is where to put it then without covering the
malformed url? In special circumstances it may happen that the location
bar is too small to even show the whole error message at all.

*Localization. What's so short in english may be pretty long in other
languages. "Malformed URL" becomes e.g. "URL mal formee" in French or
"Ungueltige Adresse" in German. Again the message may take up too much
space of an already limited widget.

Any ideas how to solve this?

Florian
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