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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: KFileDialog: "Parent Folder" button
From:       Aurélien_Gâteau <aurelien.gateau () free ! fr>
Date:       2008-07-31 7:58:08
Message-ID: 48917090.3040603 () free ! fr
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Peter Penz wrote:

>  > Two click would not be required if we went "the Gtk+ way". And the
> 
>  > user would get instant feedback as to were he is. No more need to
> 
>  > click the button to get this information.
> 
> Hm, I don't get this: From my point of view the problem is not about 
> finding out where the user is. The whole idea of the URL navigator is 
> based on using bookmarks as shortcuts to long paths (see e. g. 
> http://dolphin.kde.org/features.html). So the user uses bookmarks as 
> shortcuts to prevent having URLs like "home/peter/Documents/Pictures" 
> and replace them by e. g. just "Pictures". So 
> "home/peter/Documents/Pictures/2008/January" will presented as "Pictures 
>  > 2008 > January".

For me the bookmark is a way to go somewhere fast, it's not a way to 
hide the complexity of my folder hierarchy. So the fact that the 
hierarchy is hidden is a problem for me.

> It's a similar concept like in internet-browsers :-) If you've set a 
> bookmark "KDE4 Build Howto" you don't care that the real URL is 
> "http://techbase.kde.org/Getting_Started/Build/Unstable_Version".

Hum... in browsers, when you click a bookmark the full url is displayed, 
not the bookmark, so it's not quite similar in fact. Anyway, I am not 
sure the comparison is really relevant because one usually do not work 
directly with the url, we use the web page content to go where we want.

Aurélien
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