[rekonq] Rekonq Settings

Vyacheslav Blinov blinov.vyacheslav at gmail.com
Wed Mar 21 10:20:03 UTC 2012


В сообщении от 21 марта 2012 14:13:36 автор Marc Deop написал:
> On Wednesday 21 March 2012 03:12:44 David Narvaez wrote:
> > > On Tuesday 20 March 2012 11:26:18 Andrea Diamantini wrote:
> > >> While working on them, I was thinking on... isn't it time to move
> > >> settings to an "about:settings" window in the same way chrom* does,
> > >> letting users to change them on the fly (which means,  NO MORE
> > >> ok-apply-cancel buttons)?
> > >> What do you think about?
> > > 
> > > I honestly do not like that aproach. To me seems like having an
> > > obscure, hidden an non intuitive way to get to the settings of the
> > > application.
> > 
> > Do you mean obscure because a user must type about:settings to get to
> > the settings?
> 
> Yes, I do mean that. I could understand that for a strange configuration
> option but not for a thing like setting the proxy. I mean, it looks ok for
> advanced users but not for the average "Joe". How is he supposed to know
> that he has to type "about:settings" to get into the config?

about:settings page can be opened after click on "settings" in browser menu, 
just like chrom* does, so that`s not a problem.
> 
> > > If our concern is to avoid having to click on "Apply" or "Ok" we could
> > > find a way to automatically apply any change done in the settings
> > > window.
> > 
> > I may be a bit too old school but, when using auto-applied config
> > dialogs, I never really trust the dialog so I end up thinking "this is
> > not working because it didn't apply the settings". We should state
> > very clearly that the settings are auto applied so that people like me
> > can build up trust  plus you don't want mobile users to go scrolling
> > around searching for an Ok button.
> 
> That sounds reasonable
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Marc Deop
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Vyacheslav Blinov


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