[Bug 14981] New: Konqueror Toolbar misbehaviour

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           Summary: Konqueror Toolbar misbehaviour
           Product: Ubuntu
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: amd64
        OS/Version: other
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: kubuntu-default-settings
        AssignedTo: debzilla at ubuntu.com
        ReportedBy: chris at deadhand.com
         QAContact: kubuntu-bugs at lists.ubuntu.com


Tested a breezy Live-CD from 08/09/05.   
 
When Konqueror is started as a web browser the "Kubuntu Web" profile is used. This one has been 
simplified and sports a less cluttered toolbar (only navigational buttons). The file-manager profile 
seems to be unmodified default. 
  
The issue is that when opening a file:/ (or the like...) url in this konqueror it won't change it's 
view to something better suited for file-management. 
It's not possible to do this manually either, since the view profile management entries are removed 
from the context menus - it's only possible to "save Kubuntu Web", but not to load another. 
 
The issue is important due to the way Kubuntu handles newly opened konqueror "windows". Clicking e.g. 
"home" will open it in any currently opened konqueror instance as a new tab. Somethimes this running 
instance is a web-browsing konqueror and the new tab will inherit it's view profile (well, it won't 
*change* it for the new content). 
 
 
I'd suggest to simplyfy the file-management profile as well - the "Printer" icon can definitely go and 
"Enlarge/Shrink Icons" could be removed as well I think. Only element that would be really needed for 
file-management additionally to all the navigational buttons (including stop, inlike sometimes 
suggested) would be the two buttons to change  
between Icon and List Views. And those should only be loaded when no web page is viewed. 
 
 
Further optimization might require some work at Konqueror's code I assume. The Reload and Stop buttons 
could be made into one and the buttons Enlarge/Shrink Icons, Icon-View, List-Views and maybe additional 
views like Image View (currently on main toolbar in Kubuntu) could all fit into one slim "View" button 
- removing at least 4 buttons from the toolbar. 
 
This might look like this:  
 
 
Tree View * 
------------------ 
Icon View 
Multi Column View 
------------------ 
(Image View) 
(other views here) 
------------------ 
Enlarge Icons 
Shrink Icons 
 
 
The other List Views are a bit redundant; Detailed List View is just marginally simpler Tree View; Text 
View is for geeks and fits well in the normal "View" -> "View Mode" context menu ;) 
 
That's propably beyond the scope of Kubuntu though, so ignore what doesn't apply here please...

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