
proper webbrowsing menu
Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements
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I am constantly surprised why in default theme browsers waste so much space on unneeded thigns. Take a default konq 3.x toolbars:
1. menu - half of bar is unused
2. buttons
3. address
4. bookmarks
That's over 25% of screen on 800x600 !
It can be done better. Take a look at my firefox bar. I would like something like that in konq. Unfortunately i can only have a configuration with 2 bars,
1. menu
2. buttons, address and google
But it's still much more than firefox.
16 years ago
1.1 - added konq screenshot
16 years ago
1.1 - added konq screenshot
zz9pluralzalpha
16 years ago
FYI I have a 14" screen that only goes to 800x600.
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SubAtomic
16 years ago
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Edulix
16 years ago
In a GUI, if you implement a feature, then you'll create graphical ways to access it. As more features you have, more powerful your program might be, but more bloated it becames. As I read recently in a a blog of a kde developer, that once you add a feature, you cannot get rid of it easily, because there's always someone fan of it...
SO the real problem is, most features migh be needed (by someone at least), but not by the same person, and certainly features' need vary from user to user.
I belive that the real solution to feeling of BLOAT is :
1) Have sane defaults, as you're suggesting.
2) But much more needed is a slick, automatized way of dealing with unused "entries". I.e. if you have used some toolbar icons less than a xx % of times trough X time, that
icons should be hidden by default.
You could then click in an icon ">>" to show all the other entries. And of course this way of simplifying the life to user could be always deactivated.
Same with menu entries and what not! For example, in menu entries, when you clicked in ">>" (that would be for example the last menu entry) then the menu would show all the entries, differenciating for you the entries that were hidden before with a different background color so that you only look for an entry you didn't see before amnog that ones, etc...
I sent some months ago a bug report about this: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81637 . I'm feeling like I should create an entry here about it so that people rate the idea and discuss about it, but it's a bit late, so that will be tomorrow at best ;-).
Cheers,
Edulix.
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Superstoned
16 years ago
desktopsettings> behaviour> menubar> macosstyle.
then add a menubarapplet to kicker, wherever you want.
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MMax
16 years ago
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asdex
16 years ago
Then remove those silly "copy", "paste" icons (you do have a three-button-mouse, don't you?) and Konqueror looks quite nice.
A bookmark toolbar gives you direct access to many bookmarks without having first to click into the menu bar.
See http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php?content=8999 for an example.
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ktech
16 years ago
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