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List:       kfm-devel
Subject:    Re: Konqy View Layout
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () suse ! de>
Date:       1999-08-24 7:16:44
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On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Simon Hausmann wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Aug 1999, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> 
> > On Fre, 20 Aug 1999, Michael Reiher wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Simon and me had a discussion on IRC about Konqys view layout structure
> > > and mainly itīs presentation to the user. Our goals were to make it as
> > > flexible as possible, but also as easy to understand as possible. 
> > > What we came up so far:
> > > 
> > > Menu options in the view menu:
> > > "Split View Vertical"
> > > "Split View Horizontal"
> > > "Split Window Vertical"
> > > "Split Window Horizontal"
> > > "Remove View"
> > > 
> > > Where as "Split View ..." splits the current view, and "Split Window
> > > ..." splits the whole window. 
> > > 
> > > What do you think about this solution? Are this too many menu options?
> > > Is it intuitive enough?
> > > Comments, suggestions, critics welcome!
> > 
> > I donīt think it adds real value to konqy. So in order to make the
> > menus not too crowded I would keep it out.
> 
> Well, what should we use then?
> 
> Go back to David's original proposal with "Split View", "Add Row Below",
> "Add Row Above" . I wouldn't mind about this, it's not as flexible as
> Michael's proposal though.
> 
> Or should we entirely switch to Michael's way? (which lacks flexibility
> in another aspect) .
> 
> Or another third approach?
> 
> Drop this feature completely and provide 3-4 pre-configured and fixed
> splitter-settings?

I think we should try to fill the menu with commands related to Konqy's
core functionality as much as possible. Splitting views, changing
master-slave relations and other goodies is not really the core
functionality of a brower.  Perhaps if we can hide it somewhere under
View->Setup views->xxx. 

The idea should be that a profile includes splitter settings and that
it should be easy to select different profiles and that we have a
useable set of profiles. That way the average user doesn't has to
change his splitter settings manually ever. The geeks can then look for
this "setup views" menu/dialog and configure their browser "really
cool". 

Cheers,
Waldo

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