Konqueror: Open Location

[Andras Mantia]

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On Saturday 2003 June 28 10:02, Brad Hards wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jun 2003 22:35 pm, Andras Mantia wrote:
> >   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.
>
> For what it is worth, the first time my girlfriend used KDE was on my
> machine to access the web. She picked up the keyboard (its wireless), hit
> Ctrl+0 and entered the address she wanted. If Konqi had shown a file
> window, that would have thrown her.
> Now she didn't pick that up from me. I've never used that function. But she
> is really proficient with a keyboard, and the other browsers she's used
> support Ctrl+0.
>
> So I think you should keep it.

OK, you won. :-) It seems that there is a need for this dialog, so let's keep 
it. I can live with it, altough I still consider to be useless and that it's 
present only because of the de-facto standard(?).

Andras
>
> Brad

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