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On Friday 06 July 2007, Juan Carlos Torres wrote:
> May I throw back a question? What are the use cases _against_ tabs in a
> file manager?

the fact that dolphin's use case and target audience are simple uses (that =
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not a typo; "uses", not "users") which are focussed on file management not=
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browsing (which may be applied to file systems).

for the latter tabs and frames make lots of sense. for the former, a simple=
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with as much space for the primary task is the idea. every option moves us=
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closer to failure on that, particularly when the option is a power user one=
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which is precisely what konqueror is for.

think of it as sort of like the difference between kolourpaint and krita.=20
putting natural brush stroke and advanced colour space management is just=20
silly in kolourpaint but exactly what krita requires.

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Aaron J. Seigo
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=46ull time KDE developer sponsored by Trolltech (http://www.trolltech.com)

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