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List:       kde-usability
Subject:    Suggestions for KDE 3.5
From:       Peter Postmus <ppostmus () gmail ! com>
Date:       2005-08-16 14:57:59
Message-ID: 200508161702.13447.ppostmus () gmail ! com
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Hello,

I've given the first KDE 3.5 Alpha release a spin, and overall I'm very 
impressed. Especially with the pager set to display the desktop background, 
it just feels like I have a lot more control over all windows.

However, I do have a few suggestions of things I would like to see different. 
Not all of them are new in KDE 3.5 though. I don't know if they are allready 
being worked on, so here goes:

Kicker KCM:
- The Appearance tab contains a button "Advanced options", which opens a new 
window, in which the Applet Handles visibility can be set. I feel this 
functionality is now duplicated, since you can lock the panels now (hiding 
the handles).

- In the Appearance tab, the height of the selectboxes for the button 
backgrounds is greater than most other selectboxes. Personally, I think the 
entire "Button backgrounds" section can be omitted, but that's just me.

Open file dialog:
- If you RMB on an icon, the context menu contains the submenu "View", which 
allways contains the items "Zoom in" and "Zoom out". At first I didn't 
understand what these were for. After trying out several other things, I 
discovered that if there are images in the current folder, and thumbnails are 
enabled, they control the size of the thumbnails.
I don't understand why these items are in the submenu of the open file dialog. 
They aren't even available in Konquerors contextmenus. If people really want 
to see a bigger thumbnail in this dialog, isn't the preview panel already 
sufficient?

- The same goes for the option "View > Thumbnail Previews". This can be 
enabled or disabled in Konqueror, so why put it in a file dialog contextmenu? 
If it belongs in the file dialog, it should be in the "Configure" menu IMHO.

Konqueror:
- I think the RMB submenu in the file view panel should contain the "View > 
Sort" submenu from the toolbar. I find myself using this function quite 
often, so it should be easy to set this.


Peter
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