Bug 111350 - Usability: Choise of icons for home folders in homes:/ could be better
Summary: Usability: Choise of icons for home folders in homes:/ could be better
Status: RESOLVED UNMAINTAINED
Alias: None
Product: kio
Classification: Frameworks and Libraries
Component: home (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: unspecified Other
: NOR wishlist
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Kevin Ottens
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Reported: 2005-08-23 15:09 UTC by uno
Modified: 2009-02-28 11:16 UTC (History)
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Description uno 2005-08-23 15:09:13 UTC
Version:           The one shipped with KDE 3.5 alfa (using KDE KDE 3.4.90)
Installed from:    Unspecified
Compiler:          irrellevant to usability bugs 
OS:                I Don't Know

In the new homes:/ location in KDE 3.5 the home directories of the users are listed by the full name of the user. That way these folders act as some sort of proxy for the real user. This makes the icons feel a bit out of place.

IMHO, the icons should refer more to people than to various types of housing.
Comment 1 uno 2005-08-25 06:46:14 UTC
BTW, perhaps the location should be named users:/ instead of homes. That way it will be easier to distingush from the home directory of one specific user.

It would also be a better name, if we at a later date decide to inroduce other user related services. I'm thinking of some kind of workflow system, or drop boxes for files, or perhaps a RMB menu button for send mail to.
Comment 2 Kevin Ottens 2009-02-28 11:16:19 UTC
kio home doesn't exist on KDE4.