From kfm-devel Sun Nov 07 17:22:10 2004 From: Dik Takken Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 17:22:10 +0000 To: kfm-devel Subject: Re: KIO slaves wizard Message-Id: X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kfm-devel&m=109984813900519 MIME-Version: 1 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="--1159779203-1241112723-1099848130=:19400" This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. --1159779203-1241112723-1099848130=:19400 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=iso-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE On Sun, 7 Nov 2004, slaout wrote: >> This could be solved by leaving the location bar untouched and popup a K= IO >> combo when the user hovers the mouse pointer over the protocol part of >> the location string, much like the hover close buttons on Konqueror's >> tabs. This will leave everything as it is now, unless you hover your mou= se >> over the left end of the location bar. Manually typing full URL's in the >> address bar will still work. Also, it will be possible to make the combo >> optional. Power users may not like it. > > Yes, that's yet another (good) idea. > However only Konqueror (and eventually Open/Save dialog) woud have this > "popup widget". Not very consistent and expectable. Inconsistent with respect to... what? We can change it everywhere, can we= =20 not? > And what about if I want to select the first characters of the URL? > The popup combo will... popup and... we would need to find another hack. You can hack around that. You could add a delay before the combo appears,= =20 and you could disable the combo when the user is busy selecting the URL. > BTW, tabs popup close button also have usability problems. That's because accidentally clicking on these buttons causes a small=20 disaster. Accidentally clicking the KIO combo won't harm anyone. > Perhaps I'm alone to think the wizard icon+dialog is a good solution? I think the button does not 'look' useful, because you can't guess what it= =20 does just by looking at it. It will be just one more button that many=20 users never try out, much like the 'clear address bar' and 'go to'=20 buttons. A protocol combo will really catch the user's eye, I think. > << > Unfortunaly, I willn't have time to implement it for KDE 3.4. > It's why I posted on this list: to find a person agreeing to develop this= =2E > In last resort, I could free time to start it. >>> > > S=E9bastien Lao=FBt. > --1159779203-1241112723-1099848130=:19400--