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Subject: [Bug 8333] setting 'home page' is unintuitive
From: James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj () Acm ! Org>
Date: 2006-02-28 21:54:39
Message-ID: 20060228215439.20221.qmail () ktown ! kde ! org
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------- Additional Comments From tyrerj acm org 2006-02-28 22:54 -------
> many computer users actually fear using a file browser beyond "my documents"
> because they think they will break something.
Probably true, and somewhat odd since on a properly installed Linux system, they \
can't break anything outside of their HOME directory. Actually, the one place where \
they can break something is in their HOME directory (and the so-called hidden \
subdirectories) which is why I suggest that the default setup have the local Home \
point to "~/Files" (which corresponds to "My Documents" -- people say it doesn't, but \
check a Windows installation). That is where my Home button points.
I see some issues with what you propose. From a usability perspective, it isn't a \
good idea to have states because the user might forget which state their in \
(ambiguous states are worse). Our current setup lets you go to the web in the "file \
manager" and manage files in the "web browser" This is not good and I don't see \
anyway to change this. Even if we had profiles that would change based on the \
protocol (HTTP, FTP, FILE, etc.) it would still be best to have two HOME buttons (web \
home and "My Documents"), otherwise, you would need to have some way to change the \
mode of the browser in order to go to the HOME that you wanted.
> web-browser mode (http:// or ftp://.
I don't think so. Currently we use the file manager (the KFM part) for FTP, should \
we change this? This is a further confusion for users.
I am also asserting that another source of confusion is that users seem to think that \
web browsing and local browsing are different things. This would be OK as long as it \
doesn't result in ambiguous states. My suggestion to avoid this issue is to have \
profiles based on the protocol in use. If this were the case then clicking on one of \
the two Home buttons would also select (indirectly) the profile to be used.
Note that this needs to be setup so that users don't have to use different profiles \
if they don't want to. I suggest that there be a default "Browser" profile which \
would be used unless one were defined for the protocol being used. If profiles are \
used in this way, saving URLs would need to be a separate function.
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