Re: Killing views [Was: Dealing with files in Gnome]

[Julien Olivier <julo altern org>]

> But that's the point!
> 
> Konqueror's UI elements are not crippled. Basically Konqueror is nothing else 
> than just a Window frame and nothing else. Without KHTML embedded as KParts 
> (?) it wouldn't even act as a Webbrowser. All those KParts thingies are what 
> gives it the powers e.g. act as SQL query analyzer, Pop3 email browser, 
> Filemanager, Webbrowser, Movieplayer, PDF viewer and so on.
> 

Yes, I know that. But that's only theory. In practice, konqueror IS
crippled. For example, it has a location bar, previous/next icons which
come from the fact that it may be a web navigator. It has a "print" icon
which is useless when browsing your files etc...

Of course, that's just my personal opinion and I also feel that Nautilus
has herited some UI crippling from the time where it was a web
browser...

Now if you say that GNOME needs a plugin-embedder comparable to
konqueror, why not but then I need a file manager that does what its
name claims: manage files.

I just don't like hybrid apps because their ployvalence is often
compensated by bad UI design.

> Real live scenario:
> -------------------

(snip)

About burn://

Isn't it possible to easily build a standalone app that would simply
embed the burn:// view ?