KIO Slaves proposal

[Vlad C.]

On Saturday 13 November 2004 11:40, Dik Takken wrote:
> After the recent discussion about a KIO Slave
wizard, I have been thinking
> of other ways to make KIO slaves more accessible to
the user.
>
> The idea is that we create a special KIO slave that
allows the user to
> browse other KIO slaves, like some sort of virtual
file system. To see
> what I mean, take a look at some screenshots:
>
>
http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php?content=17800
>
> Users no longer need to know or remember the names
of the various KIO
> slaves (my girlfriend always forgets how to type a
decent fish:// URL :-)
> ) , all they need to do is browse to the right icon
and click on it. Even
> browsing remote computers using any available
protocol (http, ftp, fish,
> ...) can be handled this way by asking the user for
a hostname and select
> a protocol (see screenshot).
>
> If we really want to go User-Friendly (TM), this new
locations index
> should become Konqueror's default location,
replacing the current
> file://home/username location. Three disadvantages
that I can think of:
>
> * Replacing file://home/username with locations:/ is
a Really Big Change
> which we will probably need to wait for until KDE 4
>
> * The user's personal files will be one more click
away. But so are many
> useful KIO slaves.
>
> * We might be tempted to turn this index into a
jungle, like what
> happened to KDE Control Centre
>
>
> Opinions?

Great idea!

I think the debate as to whether Kfm should open up to
the user’s home directory or to a screen listing the
KIO slaves can be elegantly solved to satisfy both
sides by making tree-view default (see
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94865 and
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94858):
1) When the user opens Kfm, his home directory will
automatically be selected in the left pane and the
contents of his home directory will be displayed in
the right pane.

2) At the same time, KIO slaves that are already
configured will appear as nodes in the tree. Kfm
should also allow users to configure new KIO slaves by
right clicking (see
http://bugs.kde.org/attachment.cgi?id=9209&action=view).


This way, the user sees both the contents of his home
directory AND the network capabilities of Kfm in one
glance!

Cheers,
Vlad


		
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