Status of konqueror / dolphin as file manager

Hans Meine hans_meine at gmx.net
Wed Oct 31 15:04:54 GMT 2007


Am Mittwoch, 31. Oktober 2007 15:41:10 schrieb Jos Poortvliet:
> > No.  That's why I wrote "place the up button..." - don't think of it as
> > "a toolbar button"; I think the UI design can be improved greatly if the
> > button is not just "on the toolbar", but closely coupled with the
> > combobox. Thus, the GUI would change only in this *one* place.
>
> So, you want a 'up' button to appear before the lineedit, when the
> breadcrump bar turns into it... I'm not directly opposed to it, but
> there are already a lot of buttons there, two before the breadcrump
> (main location/places/whatever thing and the icon of the current
> folder) and 3 at the end (clear lineedit, drop down icon, revert to
> breadcrump icon). I think it's clutter, and again, as only ppl using
> the lineedit need it and those can probably edit the toolbar, I think
> we don't need it.
>
> I'm with aaron on this one. 'Normal' users don't need it, advanced
> users can add it themselves.

Then I agree.  (It was just a suggestion.)  After all, I mainly use [Alt-Up].
(Still, the attached popup-menu provides a little added value.  But by far not 
as much as with back/forward I think.)

Ciao, /  /
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    /  / ANS




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