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List:       suse-kde
Subject:    Re: [opensuse-kde] What is KDE 4.4 missing?
From:       Dotan Cohen <dotancohen () gmail ! com>
Date:       2010-04-15 15:53:58
Message-ID: k2s880dece01004150853p86cf1613v2054fbf4f9c3e86c () mail ! gmail ! com
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>> 1-repeatable sizing of panel height (impossible via KDE4 drag; easy in KDE3
>> via KControl)
>
> There is a feature request for this.  In the meantime you can edit
> your plasma config file, although I know this is not a good solution.
>

Yes, _please_ comment on that bug, it needs support:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163875


>> 3-default panel height and icon size are not auto adjusted larger for higher DPIs
>
> This sounds like a bug.
>

There will be a new way to set default panels soon:
http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2010/04/solving-little-problem-with-slightly.html


>> 4-mc missing from Konsole menu
>>
>> 5-mc doesn't automatically restart when left open in Konsole on logging out
>
> Make a new profile named mc (or anything you like) with the command
> being /usr/bin/mc and (optionally) set it as the default.  For some
> reason switching to the profile using right-click doesn't work, you
> need to select it from the "file" menu which will make a new tab with
> mc in it.
>

You might want to comment here:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=204922


>> 6-file pickers stink compared to https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=104501#c2
>
> That would be nice, but you can add and remove folders from the places
> panel pretty easily and the application launcher keeps a list of
> recently-used documents at least.
>
>> 7-various windows do not reopen to size at last closing
>
> Right click on the title bar, click "advanced", "special window
> settings" "geometry", check "size" and set it to "remember".
>
>> 8-tree view for "systemsettings" is neither default nor a traditional tree view
>
> It is not default because it is considered less intuitivefor ordinary
> users, and advanced users can change it easily enough.  It is designed
> to mimic the 3.5 tree view, whether that is traditional or not is
> irrelevant to the purpose of the
>

How would you like the tree view to be improved? Make a suggestion!


>> 9-YaST -> _system_ settings; personal settings -> personal desktop config
>> settings
>
> Isn't YaST a root application?  Wouldn't changing personal settings
> there change the root user's settings?  You can open YaST from system
> settings, though (or personal settings, I guess, since opensuse
> renamed it for some reason).
>

That is a Suse issue, not a KDE issue. Well, we are on the Suse list,
but if you want that changed then it needs to be filed with Suse.


>> 10-all of panel should be configurable via personal desktop config settings
>> (similar to KDE3)
>
> Which panel?  You can have an unlimited number of panels.  Which one
> would you configure in system settings?  If you can configure multiple
> panels, how would you identify them?
>

I think that he means that there should be one dialogue for
configuring all the panels, with a dropdown box for selecting each
panel. This is how KDE 3 had it, but I fail to see what advantage this
approach has.


>> 11-plasma - I can't logically associate my understanding of the word's
>> natural meaning with what it applies to in KDE4
>> (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/plasma 1, 2, 5)
>
> It's just a name.  What does "konqueror" or "kicker", or "nautilus",
> "gnome", "apple" or "acrobat" for that matter, have to do with what
> the application does?
>

I have a similar problem with Gimp.


>> 12-akonadi - overhead that that cannot be turned off even though I use
>> nothing that depends on it (Mozillas for web; mc for file management &
>> searching; OS/2 for contacts)
>
> Can't you just not install the KDE pim applications?
>

Even if KDE-PIM is installed, Akonadi is not started unless one of the
apps is started.


>> 13-distinction between general and advanced classification of objects in
>> systemsettings is difficult to ascertain
>
> Yes, I think this is going away for 4.5 (or at the very least being
> divided better) as part of a general reorganization of system
> settings.
>

This is being discussed now on the kde-usability list.


>> 14-keyboard/mouse seems more like "look & feel" (personal) than "computer
>> administration" (YaST)
>
> I think this is going in a general "Hardware" category for 4.5 if I
> recall correctly.  Criticisms of the current system settings layout
> are not really relevant come 4.5.
>
>> 15-why are "input actions" and "keyboard & mouse" two separate things? Seems
>> like they should either be 3 things or 1 thing.
>
> Also being fixed for 4.5, I believe.
>



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