Re: Konqueror tool bars

Hi Julien,

Your point about saving screen space at 800x600 is a good one.

In Konqui, at least, you can combine the toolbars using drag and drop.  So 
bookmarks and location can easily be merged into one toolbar (I sometimes run 
this way).  Perhaps Konqueror should ship with these two merged by default.

Also there are a couple usability glitches with merging these toolbars:
	1) when you drag the bookmarks toolbar next to the main toolbar (w/ browse 
buttons, etc), the K icon moves over to the left of the new toolbar. I think 
it should stay to the right, as it is more status item than toolbar button.
	2) Trying to combine the location bar with the main toolbar doesn't work.  Is 
this by design?  You be able to do this.
	3) When you combine the bookmark toolbar and the location bar, there are some 
strange size limitations on the bookmark bar - it can only take up 1/3-1/4 of 
the width of the screen. 
	4) Once you've position the bookmarks toolbar, you can't make it take less of 
the toolbar it's in without dragging it off then dragging it back on.

In general there should be no limitation on how you can arrange these 
toolbars.

Anyone else have ideas on this subject?

Cheers,

Eric


On Tuesday 24 September 2002 8:57 am, Julien Olivier wrote:
> Hi
>
> Don't you think konqueror UI should be re-designed a little bit ?
> I noticed that, with the tabs, konqueror usually has a menu, 3 toolbars and
> a tabbar (Menu, Main bar, URL bar, favourites bar, tabbar) ! It's way too
> much for an app, especially in 800x600.
>
> I think the solution to this problem could be to merge the "main toolbar"
>  with the "URL toolbar" and removing some icons from "main toolbar" such as
>  copy/cut/past icons, print/print preview icons, find and security incons.
>
> Then, one idea would be to move the favourites bar to the bottom of the
>  window by default or to make it "auto hide".
>
> More over, I think the keramik style, by removing the separation line
> between toolbars, makes it uglier when you have more than 1 toolbar. That's
> why apps should have as few toolbars as they could IMO.
>
> The same problem exists with kword by the way.
>
> What do you think ?
>
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