Konqueror 4

[Mark Rose]

On Friday 03 November 2006 3:03 pm, Randy Kramer wrote:
> On Friday 03 November 2006 04:08 pm, Mark Rose wrote:
> > On Friday 03 November 2006 1:25 pm, Randy Kramer wrote:
> > > On Wednesday 01 November 2006 11:04 am, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > > > On Monday 30 October 2006 18:22, Michael S. Mikowski wrote:
> > > > > 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.
> > >
> > > Re the more vertical space--you're right, but an alternative would be
> > > to overlay the two lines, so the hot spots were actually on the text of
> > > the path (i.e., /usr/local/bin).
> >
> > How, then, do you click to edit?
>
> Good point, I wasn't thinking about the need to edit the path.  I still
> like the idea, and will think about ways to edit--first dumb thought maybe
> switch to an edit mode?  And maybe a right click to switch to the edit
> mode?

That's perhaps the most confusing part of the VI editor and would break all 
the paradigms users have about text fields.

> I guess I can imagine myself clicking an existing path (directory) to go
> somewhere far more often than I'd want to edit to change the
> path--especially if I had the chance to have several such paths visible at
> once, and I could click in any directory in any one of those paths to jump
> to that directory.

I think the problem is already optimally solved with the Up button. Maybe the 
Up button widget (and Back and Forward) can be modified to automatically drop  
down a list of locations when hovered over. A History button may also be 
useful to show locations cut from the back/forward list when the user goes 
back and forward on a different path.

Mark