PATCH - HOME URL and profiles

[Germain Garand]

Le Lundi 20 Septembre 2004 17:20, David Faure a écrit :
> On Monday 20 September 2004 18:01, Waldo Bastian wrote:
> > I think we should seriously consider to split konqueror in a file manager
> > and a web-browser (E.g. like kcontrol and kinfocenter are split) and give
> > one of the two a different name. My vote would be to rename the file
> > manager back to "KDE File Manager", binary name "kfm".
>
> So one wouldn't be able to type a HTTP URL in the file manager's location
> bar, or vice versa? IMHO this is going too far, and losing one of KDE's
> greatest innovations.

totally agreed. 

>
> OTOH I agree that (from the number of various bug reports reported to that)
> the app should basically have two modes [which we pretty much have already,
> with the code looking for the filemanagement and webbrowsing profiles], but
> finding how and when to automatically switch from one mode to the other is
> the big problem. This is still a much smaller problem than not being able
> to do both things in the same program at all, which looks like imposing
> useless restrictions on what the user can do
> ("sorry, no directory browsing allowed here, please use kfm").

Something that could help in that respect, would be to have the Home button  
be a dropdown button (ala back button) for choosing profiles

- One click goes to home as defined in current profile.
- Sustained click drops down a list of available profiles, with current 
profile checked or highlighted in some way.

the idea behind the "Home" button being that of a starting point, when I 
desire to manually 'switch' to a given arbitrary mode, I'm naturally enclined 
to look there.

Greetings,
Germain