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[News] KDE Makes the User Interface Simpler

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file dialog layout

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| Not that you could tell from my blog, but I do hack on things other than 
| Plasma as well. ;) It seems that once or twice a year I end up spending some 
| time on the file dialog, and it's apparently that time of year again.  
| 
| Right now the All Powerful KDE File Dialog has a few unfortunate usability, 
| visual and functionality quirks that diminish it's wonderfulness. (Is that  
| even a word?) I didn't feel like doing anything too major to it as it's a 
| proven model; that and I don't want to spend too much time on it either given 
| all the other things I've got on the go. But still ... It needs a bit of love 
| right now.    
| 
| After fiddling with it a bit, I dropped an email to the usability list. 
| Discussion ensued, and Peter Penz provided some data he gathered from user 
| testing he'd done with it. (It's very nice how the number of people working 
| on file management stuff has really grown with KDE 4.) I continued fiddling 
| with things trying to improve the visual layout and make the order of things 
| more correct (e.g. for scanning). Here is what it currently looks like on my 
| disk...      
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http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2008/08/file-dialog-layout.html


Yesterday:

KDE 3.5.10 Release Announcement

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| KDE 3.5.10 features translations in 65 languages, improvements to KPDF and
| Kicker, the KDE3 Panel.
|
| August 26th, 2008 . The KDE Community today announced the immediate
| availability of KDE 3.5.10, a maintenance release for the latest generation
| of the most advanced and powerful free desktop for GNU/Linux and other
| UNIXes. KDE 3.5.10 sports changes in Kicker, the KDE3 panel and KPDF, the PDF
| viewer.
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http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-3.5.10.php
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