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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Fwd: Konqueror informative location bar
From:       Dominik Haumann <dhdev () gmx ! de>
Date:       2005-08-27 11:24:21
Message-ID: 200508271324.24110.dhdev () gmx ! de
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On Saturday 27 August 2005 11:14, Florian Graessle wrote:
> 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?
The Opera browser expands the address bar for bookmarks and other stuff when 
it has focus (see attached snapshot). We could show such an expansion to 
display the error message.

just an idea :)
-- 
Dominik

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