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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: konqueror: view profiles
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () suse ! de>
Date:       1999-08-12 9:48:22
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Hiya,

Once I have HEAD compiled and running (tomorrow or so) I wll have a
look at it.

Cheers,
Waldo

On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> It seems the view profile stuff works stable now, but I'm absolutely
> "unhappy" with the way this feature is presented to the user. I admit that
> when I implemented it, I wanted to get it working before dealing with GUI
> stuff to make it really comfortable. That's why we have currently these
> ugly two menu entries in the Option Menu ;-)
> 
> I once discussed this with Michael Reiher, but I'm not sure (read: forgot
> ;) what the outcome of the discussion was. 
> 
> So I wonder: Does anyone of the GUI design experts ( != me ) have a
> nice/good idea how to present this feature to the user?
> 
> I feel like a special dialog is "overkill" as I guess the user doesn't
> want to spend his time configuring profiles, and I think dialogs break the
> "work-flow" ;-)
> 
> I'd like an integration in the menus, but I'm not sure how to implement
> "Delete Profile" nicely then...
> 
> Perhaps this stuff is worth an extra toolbar? (not sure about this, as the
> space is already limited I feel :-)
> 
> Should we merge (read: put next together in the
> menus/toolbar/whereever) the load/select/delete-profile functionality with
> split view, etc ?
> 
> I'm a little bit clueless and need advice from the GUI experts :-)
> (as I personally like this feature a lot)
> 
> Ciao,
>  Simon

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