Konqueror: Open Location

[Aaron J. Seigo]

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On Friday 27 June 2003 12:40, Andras Mantia wrote:
> Have you really tried the patch? The open file dialog has a Location
> lineedit where you can enter http://www.kde.org and it will come up fine in
> Konqueror.

erf.. my bad... should've said "www.kde.org" ... this doesn't work, as it 
interprets it as a filename. very few will know they can put http:// (or any 
other protocol) in the location of the open file dialog, and many people 
don't bother putting the (to the, implied) http:// anyways...

> For directory opening you are right, you should use the Location bar. But
> even in the previous version you had to enter the directory and couldn't
> use the file select button to open a dir, only to open a file. Now it's
> just a matter of where do you enter the dir name.

right.. so now the Ctrl-O action works for some but not all open actions, and 
requires more knowledge to get it to open things such as web sites...

> >do people open files only, or also web locations and directories from that
> >menu item?
>
> I mostly used for opening files. For others I used the existing Location
> bar. Can't pronounce about others....

i don't have wide ranging stats on this either... but i do know many of those 
i work with, live with or know use the Location / Open action as a general 
"open this thing" dialog. i'm not sure deviating from the "defacto standard" 
as put forward by other browsers / file managers is the best thing...

but i would think it's safe to assume that websites and file system 
directories (ftp, smb, nfs, local, etc) are openned far more often in 
konqueror than individual files... 

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