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List:       kmail-devel
Subject:    Re: [patch] Re: GUI consistency
From:       Martin Koller <m.koller () surfeu ! at>
Date:       2002-09-01 12:30:15
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On Saturday 31 August 2002 00:15, Marc Mutz wrote:
> On Friday 30 August 2002 23:39, Martin Koller wrote:
> > On Friday 30 August 2002 23:08, Marc Mutz wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > If you think kmail is not "document centric", then why has it an
> > "Edit" menu? What to edit? A message, a folder ?
>
> Edit is a standard menu item. Even games have it.

KAsteroid, KBounce, KFoulEggs, KSirtet, KSmiletris, KSnakeRace, 
KSpaceDuel, KTron, KBackgammon, KBattleship, KBlackBox, KReversi,
KPoker, and so on ... do not.

>
> > Same with the "File" menu: What to save or to print ?
>
> Good question. One can imagine that users would want to print the
> contents of a folder instead of a message.

Yes, exactly. 

> > Regarding the filter actions: I don't think that it is a good choice
> > to have to actions belonging together split in two menus.
>
> <snip>
>
> They don't really belong together. Applying filters is an everyday job
> for some use cases. Create filter/configure filters isn't.

Hopefully only for _some_ usecases - otherwise the filter settings are bad.

> > And regarding konqi: Even this app is not perfect.
> > Have you ever wondered, why the "HTML settings" is in the "Tools"
> > menu and not in the "Settings menu" ? I did ...
>
> Because it's a plugin and not Konq proper?

That's a programmers view.
Think of the users view.

-- 
Best Regards/Schöne Grüße

Martin

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