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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Re: Dolphin: split views
From:       Iñaki_Baz_Castillo <ibc.listas () aliax ! net>
Date:       2007-08-12 14:20:57
Message-ID: 200708121620.58028.ibc.listas () aliax ! net
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El Domingo, 12 de Agosto de 2007, Peter Penz escribió:
> Hello!
>
> Dolphin offers to split the current view by pressing the "Split" button in
> the toolbar (see http://enzosworld.gmxhome.de/temp/dolphin1.png).
> Afterwards the view is split and the button toggles to a "Join" button (see
> http://enzosworld.gmxhome.de/temp/dolphin2.png).
>
> I think/hope it is obvious if the button "Join" is pressed now, that the
> right inactive view gets closed.
>
> Now my main question: when a mouse click into the right view is done, this
> view gets active which results in
> http://enzosworld.gmxhome.de/temp/dolphin3.png. What is the expected
> behavior when pressing the "Join" button in this case?
>
> Currently I see the following possibilities (but maybe I miss alternative
> ones):
>
> Solution A:
> The "Join"-button indicates that always the right view gets closed, hence
> this view should get closed and the left view gets active again. This is
> the current behavior in Dolphin for KDE 4. As a side note: it's possible to
> flip both views by the context menu.
>
> Solution B:
> Always the inactive view gets closed. This is the behavior in Dolphin for
> KDE 3. Problem: the icon in this case is wrong. Would it be a possible
> solution to have 2 versions of the "Join" icon, which changes dynamically
> if the active view gets changed?
>
> From my gut feeling I would go for solution B, which means that we would
> need a second version of the "Join" icon. Any objections or suggestions?

Good point. IMHO no A or B solutions are good. Better could be a 
visible "close" button in each window. That would be a really intuitible 
behaviour instead of the lottery of "Join" button.
And what about the "Join" button? why not just hidde it when in splited 
button?



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Iñaki Baz Castillo
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