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A new kind of sidebar

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Link: http:// Downloads: 21	Submitted: Jan 24 2006
Description: This is a suggestion on how to change the appearance of the sidebar. The current version of the sidebar invades on the space of the main konqueror window. My suggestion is to keep main window the same and instead slide out the sidebar to the left. Screenshot 1: Current version Screenshot 2: Suggestion This is more or less standard in MacOSX (as fasr as I now) and from a usability perspective this should be good. The main thing is the non-changing-in-size-window of konqueror, it's better to display the sidebar outside of konqueror instead of changing the browser window size. Shiira is one browser for MacOSX that uses this approach, http://hmdt-web.net/shiira/screenshot/en#SidebarRevision (Shiira is also based on Khtml/webcore;-) The sources (xcf) is availible, just hit the download link. License: GPL

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Please no!

by leinir on: Jan 24 2006

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Not the drawers... Those things are uniquely hated by just about everybody i've spoken with about it... They get in the way, they're outside of the window so you can't use them to resize, they're unsquare so they leave space unusable... In short - please no...

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Re: Please no!

by elektroschock on: Jan 27 2006

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Right: What comes to my mind here is that the toplevel-item "Bookmarks" also does not look good as "bookmarks" is already mentioned so in the sidebar panel.

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A new kind of sideba

by Roseberry on: Jan 24 2006

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No. If one needs more space one can simply enlarge the window. Also one can simply change the width of the sidebar and/or toggle it on and off with the F9 key.
Bad suggestion I think.

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Like it

by ArneBab on: Jan 24 2006

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I like it, even though Apple doesn't seem to like it anymore (imo they are simply wrong :) ).

But I feel, that it has the disadvantage of being not as versatile as an inline sidebar.

While the standard sidebar can carry any content without looking out of place, a drawer with, for example, the Kontact-Sidebar (Icons) would imo look strange.

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Should be optional

by marvin on: Jan 24 2006

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If this gets implemented it should be optional, not hardwired... Some people might like it, and I suppose it might have a few advantages, but I could see it getting very annoying in a lot of cases.

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it

by Superstoned on: Jan 24 2006

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it might be usefull, but then only if it moves INSIDE the window... overlaying the current content, only there temporarily...

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Re: it

by NapalmLlama on: Jan 27 2006

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Now there's an idea.

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maximized?

by smileaf on: Jan 24 2006

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so what happens when the window is maximized? wouldn't it appear off screen?

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Re: maximized?

by Superstoned on: Jan 27 2006

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that's why i said show it inside the window, or just DONT do it. this is the main reason mac OS X dumped it.

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A new kind of sidebar

KDE4 Brainstorm

Please no!

Not the drawers... Those things are uniquely hated by just about everybody i've spoken with about it... They get in the way, they're outside of the window so you can't use them to resize, they're unsquare so they leave space unusable... In short - please no...

Re: Please no!

Right: What comes to my mind here is that the toplevel-item "Bookmarks" also does not look good as "bookmarks" is already mentioned so in the sidebar panel.

A new kind of sideba

No. If one needs more space one can simply enlarge the window. Also one can simply change the width of the sidebar and/or toggle it on and off with the F9 key. Bad suggestion I think.

Like it

Should be optional

If this gets implemented it should be optional, not hardwired... Some people might like it, and I suppose it might have a few advantages, but I could see it getting very annoying in a lot of cases.

it

it might be usefull, but then only if it moves INSIDE the window... overlaying the current content, only there temporarily...

Re: it

Now there's an idea.

maximized?

so what happens when the window is maximized? wouldn't it appear off screen?

Re: maximized?

that's why i said show it inside the window, or just DONT do it. this is the main reason mac OS X dumped it.

No. If one needs more space one can simply enlarge the window. Also one can simply change the width of the sidebar and/or toggle it on and off with the F9 key.
Bad suggestion I think.