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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: Dolphin with tabs
From:       "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo () kde ! org>
Date:       2007-07-06 15:04:46
Message-ID: 200707060904.50113.aseigo () kde ! org
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On Friday 06 July 2007, K N wrote:
>     I have talked with several individuals some which say tabs should be
> allowed. Others are saying that tabs shouldn't be allowed. I think the best
> compromise and solution to making everyone happy is to make a setting for
> tabs and by default the tab feature is disabled keeping dolphin simple.
> Then if the user wants a more advanced feature like tabs, the user simple
> enables it.

i don't know.. the solution to every question of difference is not "make it an 
option!"

there are such things as "design decisions". the question here is: what is the 
benefit of tabs in a file manager? what is the use case target for dolpin? do 
the two answers there overlap?

imho, no.

konqueror is there for file management with tabs. keep dolphin simple. 0.02

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