Konqueror 4

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Monday 30 October 2006 18:22, Michael S. Mikowski wrote:
> In sum, I like Konqueror very much.  It is the first thing I show off to
> people who are considering moving from Gnome to KDE.  We open up 3 panes
> using multiple transports, -- say Samba, sftp, local disk -- and then move
> files between them and preview their contents in each.  Very compelling.

and none of this will be lost, save -maybe- for the "more than 2 panes" thing. 
do you ever actually use more than 2 panes for work or is that something you 
do only for demos?

> I don't see a need for a separate application for file management.  Maybe a
> cleaning up of menus for Konqueror, but a separate application seems like
> overkill. 

it's a slightly different view from the code ...

> I find Gnome bread crumbs very restrictive and annoying most of 
> the time.  And it takes up too much screen space.

we're not implementing "Gnome bread crumbs". see the attached screenshot for 
konqi's bar (i've removed the clear button so it's actually cleaner than it 
really is), dolphin's url navigator and gome's bread crumbs. to me it's 
evident which is more compact, readable and elegant. the traditional editable 
bar is more compact, but the url navigator is more readable, looks better and 
is reasonably compact at the same time.

when switching between editable bar and navigator in dolphin, there is ~25px 
difference in the widget's used width when 
viewing "/home/aseigo/pix/me/columbus05/" on my laptop. the navigator is also 
immensely more readable; i find myself squinting at paths a lot less due to 
the extra bits of space.

(this is so reminiscent of the whole usability discussion in kde back in the 
2.2-3.0 days. the conversation would generally go something like: "we don't 
like how gnome did usability therefore usability is bad and the only reason 
you must be wanting to do this is to be like gnome." seriously.)

> The only benefit to breadcrumbs is navigating back up the tree.

didn't we just have this discussion? =)

> URL could be parsed and highlighted in a manner, e.g.:
>
> /usr/local/bin
> ----|-----|---|
>
> Then one could click on the space under, for example, /usr, and be moved to
> that directory.

use more vertical space, which there is generally less of on most screens 
(doubly so with "widescreen" displays), and provide a cryptic interface 
element under the url? well, i'd be happy to try it out if someone does up an 
implementation but i'm sceptical based on the above.

-- 
Aaron J. Seigo
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