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List:       kde-look
Subject:    Re: kde's future
From:       Henry Stanaland <henryst () MIT ! EDU>
Date:       2001-01-10 0:09:02
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Well, I have a friend who is very computer 
illiterate(she hasn't even used her Mac in 
years).  But the one thing she DOES do 
on my computer is use Napster & XMMS.  She 
uses the Rename & Delete button all the time.  
She has never "accidentally" did something wrong 
or gotten confused.  What does confuse her is 
Konqueror or any other file manager(really 
the problem is the Unix file structure).  So 
we have one vote from a computer-illiterate Mac 
user to have rename/delete options in the 
file-dialog.

If anything, I agree with the use of Konqueror as 
the File Dialog.  That way, you could open an image 
directly from a webpage or your digital camera.  Heck, 
you can't currently open a file that is on the Windows 
Network through the File->Open dialog!


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On a side note.  Has there been any talk of making a 
universal "Difficulty" setting for KDE?  Similar to 
what is available on Nautilus, where a user chooses
"Easy, Intermediate, Advanced, Custom"?  

If KDE did implement something like this, perhaps we 
could have all these ideas.  Easy would only permit 
saving files,  Intermediate would allow renaming/deleting, 
and advanced would give you a Konqueror-like file-dialog.

These types of things could apply to almost anything
in KDE.  In other words, the difference between a 
Hacker's OS and a Newbie's would be a single click.

Regards,
Henry Stanaland

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