On Wed, 2003-04-02 at 16:03, Ali Akcaagac wrote: > On Wednesday 02 April 2003 16:48, Ross Burton wrote: > > I challenge anyone to come up with a reason for this being a good idea: > > > > http://www.bnro.de/~harry/sql_io/kio_sql2.png > > Well it was pretty usefull for me during my Database exercise at University, > quick, easy, works. It was during that days where GNOME didn't had such a > tool to do easy work like this. I was used and drilled to MS-Query analyzer > there and needed something similar, that tool was totally handy and better > than nothing. I think, we shouldn't discuss here wether such a KIOslave is > usable or not, the one or other may find it quite usable and it definately > was for me. At the end it's just as KIOslave 1 of 51 ones that get delivered > with default KDE. I wasn't asking if a graphical SQL query editor is a good idea, but if the concept of sql:/// is a good idea. Can I get a directory listing of sql:///? Can I copy a file there? It looks like accessing sql:/// is just a way of starting the program, which returns its data as a web page. Surely a better implementation would be to take the logic, and either embed the HTML widget (I'm sure this is possible, its KDE after all :) or change the UI to use native Qt components. URLs are not application launchers. Should GNOME come with gimp:///? No, so why should KDE have sql:///. This thinking has to stop, as it is *very* user-unfriendly. Ross -- Ross Burton mail: ross burtonini com jabber: ross jabber debian net www: http://www.burtonini.com./ PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF
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