[kde-guidelines] List view

[Aurélien Gâteau]

On Tuesday 11 June 2013 23:11:06 Heiko Tietze wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 11. Juni 2013, 21:38:10 schrieb Thomas Pfeiffer:
> > > About crappy cbl: Can we demand better one?
> > 
> > Well, theoretically there are two ways:
> The more I think about your position the more I'm convinced that we should
> do that. Lists are such a prominent controls that any advantage will help
> KDE. Perhaps I'll find some minutes tomorrow to conclude my ideas about the
> definition of a new list.
> 
> > > And just to not forget a point: Keyboard navigation is done by
> > > left/right
> > > cursor (instead of up/down which is every time "surprising" to me).
> > 
> > Which example did you look at? In the one I looked at (the timezones
> > selection in the settings for the digital clock Plasmoid), navigation was
> > done with up/down.
> 
> I found this strange behaviour on Kmail and Akregator. Krusader and Dolphin
> behave "normal", like browsing through bash history for instance.

This behavior is specific to KMail and Akregator. As far as I understand, the 
idea behind this is that you use up-down to scroll the content of the current 
message|article, and left-right to go from one message to the other.

It always annoy me, but the other way around: when I am reading a long article 
with Akregator, I use the down key to scroll it, but sometimes there is a 
block of text or an image which does not fit the width of the view, so I press 
the right key to scoll the view horizontally, and... I go to the next article  
(And I swear. A lot)

I am not sure what we should recommend in those situations where you have a 
list control to select an element, a detail control to show the selected 
element and both controls can scroll vertically.

Aurélien