Missing Home Button in KFD

[Aaron J. Seigo]

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On Monday 22 July 2002 12:05, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> On Monday 22 July 2002 10:47 am, Thomas Zander wrote:
> > So I don't care what the 'correct' definition of auto is. You may be
> > right that it has to do with timing. I will rephrase my 'complaint' as;
> > Changing things the user did not expect is not good.
>
> Instead of having multipe orthogonal options put on top of each other maybe
> we should replace options like "enable sidebar" with "mode 1" // "mode 2"
> // "mode 3".

this could lead to an awful lot of modes. currently for optional ui pieces 
there are:

 o a side bar
 o separate dirs
 o a preview
 o a list view
 o an icon view

the last two are mutually exclusive, but the others can all be used together 
in any confguration. the number of modes required to cover even some common 
sense type combinations would probably be at least as may as our current 
situation. the user would then have to choose between these modes, instead of 
between individual features.

also note that we got bug reports when separate dirs and preview were modal to 
each other. users don't think in modes, they think in features.

did you have some example mode sets in mind?

> horizontal  scrolling in combination with a sidebar and a preview sucks
> beyond believe.

yes, you have to make to dialog bigger. this isn't much of a surprise really, 
given how many widgets you have in there.

in any case, i think horizontal scrolling sucks beyond belief no matter what. 
the human mind deals with lists far better than it does with multiple columns 
(1d vs 2d).

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