new kicker menu extension: konqy profile selection

Ingo Klöcker kloecker at kde.org
Sun Feb 29 20:51:49 GMT 2004


On Sunday 29 February 2004 21:36, Scott Wheeler wrote:
> On Sunday 29 February 2004 21:06, Frans Englich wrote:
> > All this is overkill.. People shouldn't need to care about
> > Profiles/whatever in order to browse their files or the web.
>
> I'm with you here -- actually I think there's a pretty easy solution
> -- ditch "explicit" profiles and just go back to some simple cases:
>
> From everyone that I've seen using KDE there are really two
> "profiles" that people use -- I think it's simple enough to call them
> browsing files or browsing content.  It's pretty easy to
> differentiate between these two programatically and I'd like to do
> just that.
>
> If the profiles back end stays -- that's fine, but I think this whole
> issue would be made much easier if we just settle on a couple of
> common cases and switch between those transparently as the usage
> changes.
>
> (And I'll see if I can come up with a patch for this.)

I'm looking forward to you implementing profile-follows-mind because 
there's no other way to guess the correct profile for users like me who 
use custom profiles and who think that profiles are the most useful 
feature of Konqueror.

Regards,
Ingo
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