Re: krdc ui, looking for suggestions

On Friday 10 July 2009 17:48:30 Tony Murray wrote:

> Zeroconf page: http://imagebin.ca/view/twf8Tg.html

I was confused by your naming -- the tab is named "browse local 
network" while you are referring to it as "zeroconf" ;-)

> I hope that makes things clearer.

Not really :-), because you are using tabwidget for displaying various 
servers (one tab = one server). I don't think it would be possible to 
beat this because the only step you can make is to remove the tab 
widget. So I probably don't get it (100%).

But, my remarks (maybe helpful, maybe not) how I would see it:

http://imagebin.ca/view/rkBaPzjK.html
just the list of active tabs, no mixing all stuff together, no history 
there (tabbar list, UI should be consistent). If anything history 
should be another pane (now I think it is more a bug).

http://imagebin.ca/view/jV1KYYw.html
I would add history button there, and convert regular buttons 
to "unfold" buttons, i.e. clicking on such would unfold the 
section -- for history, or local network. For me it is really 
unnecessary to see almost empty start page with 3 buttons. The space 
is not used at all. The first two buttons could open "section" which 
consists of URL editbox (I posted related report about this today).

Additional plan B:
And going even further. Making this not start page as today, but start 
page as in Konqueror. So when you click "home" you would get this 
page. This means opening new connection replaces this page. And this 
allow adding option "do not show tabbar for one tab". So if user is 
working solely with one connection (not that rare) tabbar is not 
shown -- space saved.

http://imagebin.ca/view/twf8Tg.html
So this would not be a separate tab, just a section in start page tab.

Are those remarks answers to your question?

Cheers,
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