Clearer separation of functions and configs depending on view profiles for Konq

[Waldo Bastian]

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I think this indeed important. It's great that konqueror is so versatile but 
raw versatility does not make a good user interface. More effort should be 
put into making each profile a rounded functional whole.

An interesting point might be how to go from one mode to the other.

Related to that, I think that the current mode must be advertised more clearly 
in the user interface.

Cheers,
Waldo

On Mon December 15 2003 19:41, woelz at osite.com.br wrote:
> I filled two wishes that are linked: the ask for features that will allow a
> clearer separation of view profiles, so that konq can compete in usability
> with browser / filemanager combos.
>
> One is about the toolbar:
> Konqueror toolbars cannot be easily configured to show different _base_
> icon between different views
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70516
>
> The other is about separation of configuration for different profiles
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=70521
>
> They both have something in common: making viewprofiles look and behave
> more differently, and this is a very important crossroad for konq.
>
> Konqueror could go for:
>
> a) Having independent configs for different viewprofiles
> b) Having two basic configs: web-browsing and file management, and each
> view-profile shoul be in one of this categories.
> c) Stay as it is now, so that you can have some things different, but not
> all.
>
> c) has some advantages:
>
> 1) Is already implemented
> 2) Makes all profiles look relatively similar in config and toolbar, so
> after you get used to it, it is a no issue.
>
> But has some disadvantages:
> 1) It has a hard learning curve: very few apps behave this way
> 2) You have too many config options unrelated to the current task.
> 3) You can't have some usefull config options chosen differently for each
> view profile.
> 4) you cant have a simpler toolbar since one button that is used often in a
> cenario (ex. up button for file management) cannot be taken ou in another
> cenario (web-browsing).
>
> So currenlty it is very hard to custumize konqueror to the novice user. I
> know open source not about what you think, is about what you do, but this
> is a design issue I would like you to think about.
>
> But I would vote for b), as there are indeed two basic usage cenarios, and
> they have different needs.
>
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