RFC: KRecentFilesAction: hide urls

[Matt Rogers]

On Apr 12, 2007, at 12:47 AM, Thomas Zander wrote:

> On Wednesday 11 April 2007 20:15, Johnathan Burchill wrote:
>> The KRecentFilesAction shows the full url path in square brackets
>> behind the short name? I'd like to hide that url and just show the
>> short name. If the same shortname is associated with more than one  
>> url,
>> the short name would be appended with a unique identifier, like (2),
>> (3), etc.
>>
>> The API doesn't appear to do this.  Please see the following  
>> patch. It
>> defaults to the current behaviour. Comments?
>
> Hiding information is bad usability.

perhaps you can expand on why? since we're not all usability experts,  
it is not obvious how this is bad usability.
--
Matt