Kuickshow's UI

[Carsten Pfeiffer]

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On Tuesday 16 July 2002 12:29, Rik Hemsley wrote:

> Right click on a picture in konqueror (file manager mode.) and choose 'open
> in new window.' That'll open it in kuickshow. Now, what does the user do if
> they want to e.g. save this image, or zoom in ?
>
> You use the context menu to save, print etc. As this is a KDE app,
> shouldn't it have a menubar, toolbar, etc ? I think context menus are
> supposed to be used to provide fast(er) access to things which you can do
> already from menus/toolbars. Certainly someone who cannot use a mouse would
> have trouble finding out how to save/print/edit.

If you can't use a mouse, you want a tool- and menubar? You want shortcuts 
then, which kuickshow provides. Toolbars are exactly useless for mouse-less 
users. And I don't see much of a difference of pressing Alt to access the 
menubar or the Contextmenu key to access the contextmenu.

> Kuickshow also duplicates the konqy functionality by providing its own file
> browser. This is not necessarily a bad thing in itself, but it's different
> to the model used by the other KDE apps.

No, I don't think so. It's using the kfile classes, mostly KDirOperator, like 
many other KDE applications as well (kate, cd burners, other image viewers, 
noatun plugins, ...).

Cheers
Carsten Pfeiffer
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