From kfm-devel  Sun Sep 12 15:12:25 1999
From: Simon Hausmann <shaus () uermel ! Med ! Uni-Magdeburg ! DE>
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 1999 15:12:25 +0000
To: kfm-devel
Subject: Re: konquerer treeview
X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kfm-devel&m=93714862009272

Hi,

I have no doubt that we will make it as configurable/flexible as possible
:-)

Bye,
 Simon

On Sat, 11 Sep 1999, Magnus Ihse wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> I'm not subscribing to kde-kfm-devel, but I do read some of the posting to
> the list (at least those pointed to from the News web page :-)). That's why
> I'm writing to you instead of posting to the list.
> 
> Anyway, you wrote: 
> > - the treeview. I like Torben's widget very much, but I think we might
> >   consider extending it a little bit. A pure file management treeview is
> >   ok, but IMHO we should re-organize the tree structure a little bit. I
> >   don't really want to copy that feature, but I actually always liked
> >   something like the well-known
> >   ...
> >   My Computer
> >   |
> >   +--Root
> >      |
> >      +usr
> >      +var
> >      ......
> >   +--Trash
> >   |
> >   +--My Documents
> >   |
> >   +-- Mail
> >   ...
> > 
> >   ..structure . What do you think about discussion such a re-organisation?
> >   Or should we stay with the current treeview?"
> 
> Basically, I agree with you that this is a nice structure. But how about -
> in the "free" spirit of open source - letting the user decide? My
> suggestion is that the treeview could - and should - be specified by the
> user (which of course doesn't rule out including a sensible default). This
> could easily be solved either with a text file, or perhaps even more
> elegant, a directory with symlinks (like "Root" -> /, "Desktop" ->
> "/home/john/Desktop" etc). This would have several benefits, e.g. it's
> simple to get a "CD-R" -> /mnt/cdr or whatever devices you have on your
> system, which you're likely to want to have accessible in the treeview.
> 
> /Magnus
>