Open in New Window

[Neil Stevens]

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On Tuesday September 24, 2002 04:06, David Faure wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Neil Stevens wrote:
> > Hm...  I should dig up a Mandrake GPG package for you, David. :-)
>
> I'm using pine on the server exceptionnally, because my laptop (where
> I usually use KMail) broke down, if you want to know.

Eek.  No fun.

> > So, my second idea is to steal and idea from KWord.  In KWord you can
> > have a header for the first page and a separate header for every page
> > after that.  What if Konqueror profiles could work the same way? 
> > Profiles could be split into a "first" and "every one after that."
> >
> > The defaults could be tweaked to drop the sidebar for the "every one
> > after that."  So Matthias and the Windows users get their way.
> >
> > UI-wise, I don't see how this would require much change.  The Profiles
> > dialog would have twice as many entries, as every one will now have a
> > child profile (from a KListView perspective).  But the UI shouldnt' be
> > any harder to use.
>
> Too complex IMHO.
> What about simply another checkbox under "open dirs in new windows",
> labelled something like "... and create a simple window when doing so"
> ;-)

That'd satisfy me, but every time I suggest yet another checkbox, I get 
dogpiled.  :-)

> In any case, the more important fix is to revert to using the profiles
> when opening a new window by any other means (than clicking on a dir
> with the "open dirs in new windows" option activated). I'll try to see
> if there's a way to distinguish those two cases.

yes

> Even if the current behaviour for "open dirs in new windows" remains,
> let me remind you that this option is NOT activated by default anyway,
> so you won't "see the complaints on IRC". By default it would work as
> it always did, and we offer this "open dirs in new windows,
> MSWindows-like" option in addition. If users don't like it because they
> miss their sidebar, then can simply deactivate it again (and e.g. use
> MMB to get new windows).

OK, I hope so.  :-)

- -- 
Neil Stevens - neil at qualityassistant.com
"I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding
because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they
have not a single political argument left." - Margaret Thatcher
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