A look at GNOME 2.14, comparison to KDE

[jos poortvliet]

Op dinsdag 21 februari 2006 16:39, schreef Aaron J. Seigo:
> On Monday 20 February 2006 14:54, Iñaki wrote:
> [1] personally i think it could be presented in a different manner to
> greater effect. it's attempting to reveal various services in kde that
> users otherwise wouldn't know about, since random URL protocols such as
> fonts:/ are hard to find for most users. but could this same revealing be
> done in a different manner?

i'm sure you know what you are trying to do - it'll be very very hard, i 
think. the kpart technology is very powerfull, but hard to get to the users. 

the 'meta' kioslaves like media:/ and network:/ are a very good, and i think 
showing them on konqi's (first) start is a really clever idea. maybe it 
should be the place the 'home' button brings you... kubuntu added a local 
filesearch there, a nice addition. file-open dialogues should expose 
something similar, imho. tough their sidebar already serves this purpose?!?

the control center (seen kubuntu's?) might just use fonts:/ too add and remove 
them.

i think for KDE 4 there are three ways to go with konqueror:
1. make it more central to KDE - as THE way to start and manage applications 
(applications:/); as THE control center interface; as THE webbrowser and THE 
filemanager; picture viewer, music manager (?!?!) etc etc.
2. make it LESS central to KDE - divide webbrowser and filemanager, and dump 
most other functions.
3. keep it as it is: it CAN do a lot, but most users don't know...

honestly, i wouldn't know. the first might not be the way to go, and imho many 
of these functions are better done in their own app. but if done right, it 
might prove usefull and the most powerfull option. 2 would confuse users 
less, be cleaner, and PISS OFF many users ;-). the third option... well, it 
would simply be NOT making a choice, not good, i guess.

i did love the idea about 'content managers' (was that the name?) - have 1 app 
to handle all music-related things, INCLUDING file management. amarok is 
doing it, more and more. and 1 app for pictures, 1 app for documents, 1 app 
for movies etc etc. these apps should unify browser (manager) and use app in 
one. these content managers could be unified in konqueror (so give konqi 
better music playing capabillities, integrate amarok as a kpart etc) or be 
seperate...

grtz

J


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