Konqueror: Open Location

[David Faure]

On Friday 27 June 2003 14:35, Andras Mantia wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>   I have a mainly usability issue with Konqueror: Open Location and I think
> all the other browsers. I think the dialog shown when you select the Open
> Location is not needed at all and it's redundant. In Konqueror you can open a
> location by entering the location in the Location bar (so the lineedit in the
> dialog is duplicating this functionality), and if you click on the select
> file button, it will bring you up the standard file open dialog. Why can't
> the Open Location menu bring up directly the file open dialog? It will save
> you one click and a mouse move without losing any functionality. Just because
> other browsers have the same way implemented, I don't think Konqui should
> follow them. In Mozilla I see a separate menu for opening files, but it's
> also an overkill. In KDE Open File is the same as Open Location, due to the
> various kioslaves.
>  What do you think about dropping the "Open Location" dialog?

I also think it's useless, but many users seem to use it - since we got bug
reports about it when it was broken etc.
You don't use it? Fine... But why should we remove it?

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David Faure -- faure at kde.org, dfaure at klaralvdalens-datakonsult.se
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