Choosing View modes

[Benoit Walter]

As suggested by Aaron, here is a small sumary of the discussion on 
kde-usability. Please not that we can still use the 2 solutions, it is just a 
matter of choosing the right defaults.

Benoit.

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Arguments to keep the current behavior:
- casual user can switch between icon view and list view (and doesn't even 
have to bother about the drop down menu), while the power user can switch to 
fancier modes at will
- need to switch between list view and icon view quite frequently
- showing all view modes in 1 menu makes the choice more difficult

Arguments against current behavior (and for using a single popup button which 
opens without delay):
- 4 to 7 buttons: too much space for something that is done relatively rarely
- not obvious that buttons are all mutually exclusive modes
- not intuitive because some views are in non-instant drop down menus
- difficult to know the meaning of icons (especially for external viewers)
- inconsistent with the "View->View Modes" submenu


On Wednesday 21 April 2004 00:39, Benoit Walter wrote:
> Hi kfm-devel,
>
> We have been talking on kde-usability about the way to select a view mode
> in konqueror. Currently, we have several buttons for switching between view
> modes. An alternative would be to use a single popup button that lists all
> available modes (cf. View->View Modes submenu).
>
> Here is the link to the archives:
> http://lists.kde.org/?t=108238221200003&r=1&w=2
>
> Many arguments were given for *and* against changing the current behavior,
> now we should decide which solution is the best (and therefore will be in
> the next KDE).
> What's your opinion on it?
>
> Regards,
> Benoit.