some comments on the konqy usability report

[Luciano Montanaro]

On Monday 02 January 2006 01:07, Michael Pyne wrote:
> On Sunday 01 January 2006 18:47, Luciano Montanaro wrote:
> > On Sunday 01 January 2006 23:42, Michael Pyne wrote:
> > > On Sunday 01 January 2006 15:09, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > > > -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
> > >
> > > I think we could remove the Info List, Tree View, and Text View myself.
> > > Or at least find a nice way to merge Detailed List and Text View.
> >
> > I have read the report yesterday, but I did not have the impression the
> > tree view was so bad, in the test someone actually was happy with it,
> > wasn't it so? I'll have to have a second look. But I tend to use often
> > the tree view, and I would not be happy to see it go.
>
> I just read the report a few hours ago after I wrote the email. (Great
> report, btw!)
>
> And yes, there was a report that the Tree List view was found useful by one
> of the users being tested on Konqueror.
>
> It's not a life or death issue for me one way or the other, although I do
> wonder why it is better to have a Tree List mode rather than using the Tree
> List that's normally already present in the sidebar?
>

Ah, well, that's easy to explain. I basically do not use the sidebar.
I tend to use one existing konqueror, open a new tab, and go to the home 
directory - or to an ftp site or whatever - and do my file management 
operations. 

Also, it does not exactly work like the sidebar, since you can view the files 
in addition to the directories. I find it useful also to move files around:
- expand the directory, 
- find the file or files to move,
- drag it to its destination directory.

Anyway, since it displays exactly the same informations of the "detailed"
view, can't we keep it instead of the other views? It actually behaves the 
same, when clicking on a directory, that is, it descends in the hyerarchy.

What can be done from the "Detailed" view that can't in the tree view? 

Is there some feature of the tree view that can be hard to use (and to get 
accustomed to) for beginners? I'm not too familiar with other operating 
systems, but I think the old MacOs "Finder" had a similar view, and if it is 
an interface already learned by our potential users I think it would be 
useful to keeo it. 
 
Luciano


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