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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Proposal of user input style global setting
From:       Jeffery MacEachern <j.maceachern () gmail ! com>
Date:       2011-04-26 7:09:18
Message-ID: BANLkTi=YF0pJfobR2CuUY6=VRnSbYO4y-w () mail ! gmail ! com
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On Sun, Apr 24, 2011 at 13:35, 4ernov <4ernov@gmail.com> wrote:
>  Hello,
>
> I've got a proposal about different user input styles e.g. touch input
> devices and pointer/mouse input devices.
>
> I think it's obvious that they differs considerably. As I can assume,
> Qt and KDE move to be more touch-friendly. Due to MeeGo or something
> else. And that's good. But sometimes it hurts mouse usability so much.
> In some cases these two concepts are simply opposite.
>
> I think the current way to find some common behavior fails as it
> ignores strengths of each concepts. I think some kind of global
> setting should be added to KDE to allow applications to know what
> input style to use. And application is free to implement both or only
> one by itself. This can keep all the strengths of one (current)
> concept without sacrificing another. And user can always change the
> desired behavior.
>
> Just a couple of cases for now:
> 1. The feature that was introduced in Qt 4.7 - you can drag the window
> clicking on unused area. Quite cool on touch devices. But the sense

I thought this was an Oxygen feature, not a general Qt feature... Am I
wrong about that?

 - Jeffery MacEachern
> unclear for mouse. I can always hit Alt and do the same if I want.
> I'll do it on purpose this way. And now hundreds of errors every day
> when you just clicked wrong or didn't pointed very well and the window
> went the opposite display corner just by one click and minimal
> movement. Personally me it disturbs very much.
>
> 2. Microblogging plasmoid. The list of messages uses kinetic
> scrolling. Very good for touch devices. But I can't select any text of
> message and copy it.
>
> I hope this proposal can improve user experience and can make the
> whole KDE ecosystem more user-friendly.
>
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