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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: Dolphin with tabs
From:       "Peter Penz" <peter.penz () gmx ! at>
Date:       2007-07-06 16:07:03
Message-ID: 20070706160703.313890 () gmx ! net
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Hello Keith,

> I am purposing that there be setting within dolphin that controls
> whether or not tabs are allowed and that tabs be implemented
> into dolphin.
> I am attaching a patch that implements tabs into dolphin but it
> doesn't yet allow for tabs to enabled/disabled yet or the
> closing of tabs.

First let me thank you for providing a patch instead of "just requesting" a \
feature.

> 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.

Dolphin was never intended to replace Konqueror (see also \
http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2007/02/konqueror-not-vanishing-news-at-11.html \
for more details). Konqueror will stay as first choice for power users, so \
it will provide tabs, unlimited splitting of views, a very powerful \
context-menu etc.

So Dolphin aims for a different target audience and we must somewhere draw \
a line to stop adding features just for trying to make everybody happy. I \
admit that drawing this line is very difficult, but in the case of tabs for \
a file manager I see this as a feature for power users.

When it has been made public that Dolphin will get part of KDE 4 two of the \
                most controversal discussion points have been:
- no tree view
- no tabs

We've added the tree-view as it is an orthogonal feature which is turned \
off per default and does not need to get configured. In the case of tabs we \
would have additional menu items for creating a tab, closing a tab it, we \
must provide configuration options (open tabs in background, hide tab bar \
when only one tab is open etc.).

During writing this mail I've just seen that there have been some replies \
to this thread, which cover already some points I wanted to mention. So \
I'll keep this mail short and just want to say again 'thank you' for \
contributing a patch and willing to help. I'm sorry that in this case the \
consent of the Dolphin developers is that we have Konqueror for use cases \
where tabs are needed.

We would appreciate if you still would help us with contributions and \
patches and hope we did not scare you off by this.

Best regards,
Peter


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