integrated internet browser

[Erik Harrison]

On 8/25/05, Amichai Teumim <amichai.teumim at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
> 
> I was never a fan of KDE. So yeah I tried konq with the GTK theme. Looks
> nice, but I don't like konq. I use nautilus, but although nautilus used to
> have a web surfing ability, it was also knocked out.
> 
> Am I the only one who finds such a function practical?

No. See Konqi and Windows Explorer

> 
> Why close the FM then open a browser, when you can jsut interchange
> between / and http://?
> 

Yeah, if the two things you do most are file browsing and web
browsing, and the most common thing you do is switch from your file
browser to a newly typed URL which isn't in your bookmarks in your
webbrowser, then this is a time saver.

The issue is of course is that the UI should make it easy to switch
between the two (web browser/file browser) but they should be seperate
applications.

Shoehorning the two together results in either konqui (which is
unsuable) or Explorer (which changes it's entire UI depending on the
mode). And that's just from a UI perspective.

>From a programming perspective you wind up with a terrible complicated
application. You wind up either kludging too much disparate
functionality into the core, or you overengieneer your framework to be
so general that it doesn't really buy you anything

> -amichai
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-Erik