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this thread is ~100% off-topic for this mailing list.

On Tuesday 27 May 2008, Kevin Boyce wrote:
> I feel that some features have
> been forgotten at the expense of ease of implementation.

you are more than welcome to look over at just how easy the implementation =
of=20
things has been and assess the work done. i hope that such an assessment is=
=20
what your feeling is based on.

> Particular concerns are panel settings (currently I can only adjust the
> height).

you can adjust the alignment, width, height and screen edge as well.

> I miss being able to make it semi-transparent,

this is up to the plasma theme. i am, right now, using a translucent panel.=
 i=20
have used one since before 4.0 even.

> and only consume 90% of the screen width, etc.

already done in svn.

> Also, I noticed that when adding
> new plasmoids to the panel, they always appear from the right.  The

you can also drag them to where you want from the add dialog, and eventuall=
y=20
we'll have little handles you drag around when the edit bar is up.=20

> Also, I miss the old style of Kontrol Center,

so many people missed it so much that exactly zero people have written the=
=20
couple hundred lines of code needed to make kcontrol functional in kde4. so=
=20
either the people who really missed it don't miss it that much or very few=
=20
people actually miss it.

> where there was much more hardware information available at the users
> fingertips.

kinfocenter is what you are looking for here, not kcontrol. note that the=20
kcontrol/kinfocenter split happened in 3.1. and yes, kinfocenter ships with=
=20
kde4 and looks better than ever.

> I realize that plasma has been designed to be highly flexible, so I hope
> to see further development which extends the usability beyond KDE3's
> capabilities.

i know you probably meant this to come across as supportive.

=2D-=20
Aaron J. Seigo
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