From kfm-devel  Fri Feb 19 16:38:29 1999
From: Waldo Bastian <bastian () ens ! ascom ! ch>
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 16:38:29 +0000
To: kfm-devel
Subject: Re: konqueror/DESIGN
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Sven Radej wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 19 Feb 1999, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> (...)
> 
> >Hmm... If you happen to come across a message/mailbox on your
> >filesystem,
> >konqueror should be able to show it in a nice way. But for reading your
> >daily mail you should just use a mail-program. I don't see the advantage
> >of having that in konqueror.
> 
> We must be consistent. If I click on mailbox I want to see list of messages in
> that mailbox. That view must be done my mailer; only mailer can handle it's
> messages.  Supose you have more mailers with different style mailboxes (mh,
> mbox, special...) Konqueror doesn't know and needs not to know how to handle
> special documents be they mailboxes, images, documents...

Yes, the mailer supplies the view for technical reasons. But to the user
it 
is like konqueror does this. Just like netscape can show quicktime
movies.
Technically netscape can't: it needs a plugin to do it. But a user will
perceive it as netscape who is playing the movie.

It would actually be interesting to be able to support the netscape
plugin
API in konqueror as well. Didn't have the Trolls something for this?

> >> Second it! But it should be executed in background or only display a
> >> progress bar.
> >
> >Yes. Another nice option could be "Print". Imagine a JPG, when you click
> >"Print" the image-viewer gets launched and you get the Print-dialog of
> >the image-viewer. (The rest of the image-viewer can be minimized).
> >Intersting question: should the applications automatically quit, after
> >it has finished printing?
> 
> Of course. It can show some progress indicator (in separate window or any other
> way, but not in konqueror) And when action is finished - quit.

Wow, if we manage to implement all this we really have a killer desktop.

Cheers,
Waldo
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