kdebase/konqueror

[David Faure]

On Thursday 01 April 2004 16:51, Frans Englich wrote:
> 
> (Replying two similar threads on kfm-devel and kde-usability)
> 
> On Thursday 01 April 2004 19:44, Datschge wrote:
> > On Wednesday 31 March 2004 23:13, Frans Englich wrote:
> > > s/Remove View/Close View/
> >
> > What is the reasoning behind this? A view (which can be removed) is
> > not necessarily the same as a window (which can be closed), the
> > former makes space for whatever other view is there, the latter
> > disappears completely.
Yes.

> But that did not bring any new, I could do the same, playing a little game:
> 
> "A window(which can be removed) is not necessarily the same as a view(which 
> can be closed), the former makes space for whatever other windows is there, 
> the latter disappears completely."
> (and it sounds just as sensible)

It doesn't. The cross in a window's corner says "close", not remove.
The term closing for windows is very well defined. Using it for views is confusing.

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David Faure, faure at kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).