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Subject: Bug#17908: missing features in right-button menu on desktop
From: martijnklingens () netscape ! net
Date: 2000-12-31 14:27:37
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Package: kdesktop
Version: KDE 2.1 Beta 1
Severity: wishlist
Installed from: SuSE 7.0 RPMs
Looking at the right-button popup menu of the KDE desktop
I think there are many small things that will make the
desktop more intuitive, especially to novice users.
I know they are all small details and I can file lots of
other wishlist reports for other apps this way (and maybe
I will), but I think that they do help to make KDE more
user friendly towards Windows and Mac users. For Unix, KDE
is already one of the most user friendy environments, but
Windows users definitely won't call KDE as it is now user
friendly.
Here are the options I'm thinking of:
- Mention keyboard shortcuts when they exist. They can be
retrieved from the control center settings, but even
mentioning the defaults would be better than not
mentioning them at all.
- Line-up icons does not what you'd expect. Not the icons
are lined up, but their captions. This results in icons
that look very messy. The Windows approach of lining up
the icons and not caring about the captions is IMHO better
in this case.
- Mount/unmount option is not always available, but is
shown in the menu though. Whenever fstab doesn't mention a
mount point to be user mountable, only root can mount it.
Therefore, the option should be disabled or not available
at all. Even better would be a simple check if the mount
program is suid root, but at least the fstab check should
IMHO be done.
- CD-Writer devices are shown as normal CD-Roms, but there
are separate icons available. I know it is difficult to
separate writers from cd-roms, but i'd suggest to give it
a try. Worse, I can change the unmounted icon, but *NOT*
the mounted icon, which is a real flaw to me. Now my
writer is just a cdrom after mounting.
- The 'edit file type' option for shortcuts and things
like the waste basket are inappropriate and even
potentially dangerous because novices might break the
default associations for these objects thinking they're
only editing the wastebasket, which is not a normal folder
to novices.
- The icon for online help is not the normal khelp icon.
Maybe this has a reason, but it is confusing though.
- The option 'activate desktop menu' should be a checkbox
and not be a normal option that is renamed 'deactivate
...' when the menu is active.
- The delete and shred options have no icon on the
desktop, but the same option in konqueror has. The same
icons could (and should) be used.
Thanks in advance for looking at these suggestions. If you
have any questions, feel free to drop me a line.
Martijn Klingens
(submitted via bugs.kde.org)
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