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This is an idea of a home page for Konqueror that could be implemented in an IOslave. It would list the devices in the computer and the peripherals, and could also list some common applications like the browser, the e-mail client or so, allowing you to start them by clicking on its icons. I don't want to immitate other OSes; this is much more inspired in web site designs and tries to be practical and useful. What do you think?
shulai
15 years ago
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nunogomez
16 years ago
I will try to make a port for Mandrake.. Source codes will be available in CVS, you'll be able to reach them from Turkix web site.
And thenew kioslave is not a frozen web page output. It changes regarding your devices added or removed. It's in full interaction with your system as in devices:/ kioslaves. Plus, whether you device is mounted or not, it mounts it and shows you the output. I've named it kiostart.
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djworld
16 years ago
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elektroschock
16 years ago
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probono
16 years ago
Also, KDE should get some "supermount" functionality... - just the way Mac or Win do...
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gladiac
16 years ago
http://submount.sf.net/
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djworld
16 years ago
About the "supermount" feature, I think it's more a question for the distributions. Also, devices:/ doesn't support supermount. I use supermount and my DVD and my CD recorder are not listed in "devices:/". Also, devices:/ usually includes the /home directory. For normal usage it's useless to have access to /home. Instead, you should prefer to access to your ~ directory. That would also hide some of the complexity for novice users.
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VectoR
16 years ago
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elektroschock
16 years ago
Perhaps it is true: Open Source is no real innovative software.
http://segusoland.sourceforge.net/
or dashboard
show that it can be done.
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Superstoned
16 years ago
this whould hide the awfull / directory structure, which you dont need anyway. Of course then this page whould need all links to documents, movies, /mnt and other important places (for the normal user!!!!).
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leinir
16 years ago
As pointed out above, the home name does seem like something we already have, and thus might confuse which we obviously don't want. Apart from all the fud, Start does seem like the best suggestion, and I would say that changing it to for example Begin Here seems like such a desperate attempt to just make it not Start. And, please remember, this is not a Start menu, this is a start point for browsing the computer, which is really something I've missed.
To make it output something that is usable, it would probably have to output HTML, but it is I am afraid, not really possible to make this flexible enough simply by using a HTML page, because of the potential for dynamic content in this starting point. Removable disks, network drives, mounted ISO images ( ;) ), you name it.
Just a couple of ideas :)
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djworld
16 years ago
Implementing this as a KIOSlave would allow it to be dynamically generated, as the HTML would be produced by executable code which can take a look at /etc/fstab to list the proper devices and so. Anyway, HTML would miss some interesting features like right-clicking to mount/umount devices, open K3B to record a CD, format a floppy and so. So we could simply reproduce that design in QT Designer and implement it as a normal interface, and embed it in Konqueror via a KPart or something. These are technical questions; what I wanted to debate here is the idea itself and we'll see the best way to implement it.
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j6cubic
16 years ago
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pmarat
16 years ago
Why you just create a simple Start Website??
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The-Q
16 years ago
reminds me of a blue screen os.
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djworld
16 years ago
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vide
16 years ago
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DarkStalker
16 years ago
Want to be able to browse your programs website style? type in programs:/
Want to be able to browse your devices? Type in devices:/
Not a bad idea.. just that you're a little late.
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optikSmoke
16 years ago
IMHO, of course.
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djworld
16 years ago
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mabs
16 years ago
Here are some thoughts I've given it:
The Storage-part could in my opinion also include Audiocd like in kioslave "audiocd:/".
"CD recorder" would be nice if a rightclick could start K3b or another CD-R-app.
It might even be posible to generate "Storage" from kioslave "devices:/"
The buttom "devices" might also need another name since a partition is also a device. Print should open kioslave "print:/".
The blue thing on the left, I'd prefer if the sidebar already present in Konqueror were used insted. And the actions like "add/remove folder" should be in a menu that could come from a rightclick on or around the icons.
All should of course be in i18n, so it could be translated.
Hmmm. If I hadn't a million things I wanted to make, I might be temped to try to make this myself.
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djworld
16 years ago
I don't think audiocd:/ should directly be as an icon. It could, instead, be included as an option in the right-click of the DVD or the CD recorder. The K3B idea is cool, and there could also include an option to mount/umount and eject the CD or other removable media. It would probably be more correct to say "Peripherals" than simply "Devices"; anyway I don't mind which name to give it, I just wanted to give a name that doesn't confuse the novice user.
The sidebar in Konqueror would be ok, but I wanted to give a cool look like in the web pages. That gradient background wouldn't look cool in a Konqueror sidebar. Anyway there could be other formulas that also looked good.
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dle
16 years ago
I believe something like this is already implemented in some combinations of distro + desktop.
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djworld
16 years ago
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djworld
16 years ago
By the way, the screenshot is fake. It says "home:/" in the address bar, but it's how it could look. In reality, I've modified it with GIMP.
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