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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: What's with the background docking icon?
From:       Christian Esken <esken () kde ! org>
Date:       1998-11-20 1:29:02
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On Thu, 19 Nov 1998 Stefan Taferner wrote:
>At 21:32 18.11.1998 -0800, Aaron Levinson wrote:
>>
>>I got a CVS drop late last night, and the first thing I noticed was the
>>docking icon that's taking up precious docking space on the kpanel.  I
>>initially assumed that it must provide some cool new feature to be there
>>by default, but all it does is allow you to change the background!  Not
>>only that, but you can't get rid of the damn thing.  "Quit" does not exist
>>in the popup menu.  In addition, unlike standard docking apps, there's no
>>window associated with it.
>
>Let's say the user interface is somewhat unluckily chosen.
>I miss very much that anything happens when you click on the icon.
>
>>The icon is also very misleading.  Two computers that are connected makes
>>me think of networking, not setting the background. 
>
>Yes.
>
>The only usable feature I would see is if it could be possible to drop
>an image on the icon to set the current background without opening
>the display dialog.
>
>As it behaves current I also think that it is useless.

Yes!

  Christian

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