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by anon on Monday 18/Jun/2007, @00:16

Hello,

will those special icon actions also be available from dolphin and konqueror ? or only on the desktop ?

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Re: plasma icons
by superstoned on Monday 18/Jun/2007, @00:34

let's hope they won't be plasma-specific ;-)

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Re: plasma icons
by Schalken on Monday 18/Jun/2007, @00:51

The quick icon actions yes I do think should be available in Dolphin under icon view.

However, other parts of Plasma such as icons having the nice rounded border and the ability to move icons around should probably remain Plasma's expertise.

It is useful to distinct the use of icons on the desktop (fewer large icons, move them around) from icons in the file manager (large number of icons, must reduce clutter).

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Re: plasma icons
by Adrian Baugh on Monday 18/Jun/2007, @09:49

I disagree. I think that an icon should behave exactly the same everywhere - anything else is confusing to users as they have to figure out where the different behaviours apply and why, when they drag an icon from a dolphin window onto the desktop, it begins to behave completely differently.

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Re: plasma icons
by Aaron J. Seigo on Monday 18/Jun/2007, @10:40

which is why icons on toolbars behave exactly like icons in sidebars, the file dialog and the file manager? ;)

icons are context sensitive. i agree that things should generally work similarly, i also think (and have done various bits of user testing and observation to base this on) that the "desktop is just a file manager view" concept is completely and utterly broken.

one of my stated goals is to break this errant connection by 4.1 so we can get on with using the desktop and panels as something that is actually useful in the general case.

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