some comments on the konqy usability report

[Alexander Neundorf]

Hi,

at first one question: why was the shortcut for the location combobox changed 
from "Alt+O" to "Alt+C" in KDE 3.5 ? "Alt+O" now opens the Tools-menu. I (and 
I'm probably not the only one) was very used to it.

Ok, and now some comments to the usability report published here:

http://www.userbrain.de/kde/report_filebrowser-screening-test_08.05.pdf

-the functionality of the info list view should be merged into the other list 
views, makes one view less. I'd really like the text view and the detailed 
list view to stay. How about removing the tree view ? A combination of the 
navigation side bar and the detailed list view is very similar

-How about just keeping the icon view and the list view  and maybe one or two 
more in the toplevel "View -> View mode" menu and introducing a submenu "View 
-> View mode -> More View modes" for more obscure view modes ? Could this be 
implemented via an option in the desktop file describing the view part ?

-The gallery view is nice, but IMO only a workaround to the problem, that 
currently it is not possible in konqueror to switch from an opened file in 
konqueror to the next/previous file. If this would be possible, the gallery 
view wouldn't be needed at all, it would work with the normal image view, 
text view etc.

-The info in the tooltip: how about adding a view which shows this info and 
which sits e.g. on the right side beside the icon view ? (i.e. a bit like in 
the Mac OS X finder) ?

-editing files: an easier way to edit files is required. How about forgetting 
about the "view-only" paradigma of konqueror ? Or if a file is previewed, 
place an "Edit" button/icon/rmb entry somewhere ?

-kfind: is it still required for KDE 4 or will it be replaced by 
tenor/kat/XXX ? Some improvments would be easy to do, but I won't do it if it 
will be replaced for KDE 4 anyways.

And yes, I plan to work on these things (not all of them, and I don't have too 
much time to do it, but I'll try my best).
But at first we should discuss these things. 
Is this actually the right place or should this happen on one of the usability 
lists ? 

Bye
Alex
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