kdelibs/kio/kfile

[Aaron J. Seigo]

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On Wednesday 03 July 2002 07:33, David Faure wrote:
> > More commonly used options are (still IMHO):
> >
> > - switching views (when I need to find something by size, date, etc.)
> > - showing the preview
>
> I totally agree.

oh, i'm not saying that they aren't used. it's just a matter of
 prioritization and organization.

> > If you care about consistency, then F10 should invoke "new directory", as
> > it does in Konqueror.
>
> Yes.

good point.... now F10 is attached to new directory, bumping up two of the
others to F11 and F12...

now Ctrl-B, F5, F9 and F10 all do the same thing in both konqi and kfd ... =)

> I'd like Preview, View switching, and Mkdir to be in file dialog's toolbar,
> but if that's too much it's indeed a bit hard to know which one should go.

yep. it would be nice if people were good at handling large numbers of
icons/options, could identify actions by their icons alone, had large
monitors ..... *sigh* i really need to find a perfect world to live in ;-)

speaking of which, i discovered kfiledialogconf.cpp today by commenting into
the "configure this dialog" button ... i wasn't aware of the statusbar in the
file dialog, or of the about bit either. so, here's a question:

should we keep kfiledialogconf or turf it? it isn't part of the public API
(the header isn't installed) and is only used in KFileDialog (though it is
currently commented out) ... i'd vote for getting rid of it ...
in which case, should we keep support for hte status bar in the file dialog
 or get rid of that as well? if we keep it, i'll add a setting in the
 configure menu for it ...

i'm also debating whether it is worthwhile to have a KHelpMenu in the
configure menu for KFileDialog ... it's complex/comprehensive enough that it
deserves one =)

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Aaron J. Seigo
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