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List:       kde-bugs-dist
Subject:    [Bug 8333] setting 'home page' is unintuitive
From:       James Richard Tyrer <tyrerj () acm ! org>
Date:       2008-06-04 2:40:57
Message-ID: 20080604024057.32313.qmail () ktown ! kde ! org
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------- Additional Comments From tyrerj acm org  2008-06-04 04:40 -------
Re: Comment #140

It is very unfortunate when what should be a discussion of how best to do things \
breaks down into a rhetorical argument.  In rhetoric, you comment can be \
characterized as 'hit and run'.  It accomplishes very little.  The Strawmen that you \
offer make very little sense.

They can mostly be disposed of with one fact.  You can configure this does not mean \
that you must.  Clearly, you start with defaults and these are changed ONLY if the \
user chooses to do so.


> JRT: there's also a konq-simplebrowser.rc -- does this mean there's a third 
> home  location just because some distros/profiles/people removed some toolbar 
> buttons? 

No, it actually means that there is a binary question:

IF using konq-filemanagement.rc
THEN home is $HOME
ELSE home is web home

This is not rocket science -- it is just another strawman.

There are in fact 4 states.  You can open Konqueror as "WebBrowser" or FileManager.  \
And, you can do webbrowsing or filemanagement in either one.  So, there are 4 states. \
You do the math.  In my proposed solution.  There is 2 states (either it is \
filemanagement or it isn't).

Your attempt to split Konqueror into two applications will distroy one of KDE's best \
features.  Konqueror is the universal browser.  A browser that also has the ability \
to run a filemanager as a plugin.

So, this is another possibility.  If the Dolphin plugin is active, then home is \
$HOME, otherwise it is the web home.  This has the advantage that there is NO state \
issue at all and it is simple to tell when the Dolphin plugin is active.

Your additional ideas of further splitting Konqueror into two applications are even \
worse ideas.


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