On 01/09/15 23:59, Xen wrote:
I think the "KDE DESKTOP" banner in the KDE menu is not very useful (at the top, in small).
You don't say which version of openSUSE and KDE you're using. Sounds like either you're not using the default KDE or you're on Plasma 5, because normally that KDE DESKTOP is replaced by openSUSE's custom branding. Could also be that you're using the upstream KDE packages instead of the openSUSE branding, but in that case you'd have had to have effected the change deliberately.
Screen locking in Kubuntu has never been odd, I must say. In here, it's weird. The options don't match or don't work.
Need more info. The fonts in KDE are also too small for someone coming from a Windows system. It is hard to see, after a while
you don't notice any more but that doesn't mean the effect is gone. It is bad. I'm not so effected by it now because I'm running a Konsole full screen with large font. But most of the fonts are too small, everywhere, by default. There are a few other small gripes I have with KDE atm but I won't mention them here.
I've found the default KDE font sizes in openSUSE versions going back several years to be too small. First thing I do is install the msttfonts package, not because I love Microsoft but because it brings in standard fonts that the rest of the world uses, alleviating minor glitches and formatting issues in received office documents and the like. I then increase the font sizes universally by 1 or 2pts on each category, and set the base font to Arial. I find with all those settings, things somehow resemble more the openSUSE versions I used in the old days.
One really bad thing about KDE I want to mention. The language/keyboard selector in the system tray. You cannot change its colour, that is one bad thing. It conflicts or clashes with the theme I have and I don't see why it should not just be the same colour as the other icons. But more importantly perhaps. In a Dutch region at least in the Netherlands there are two keyboards you use: US and US International. But you cannot choose the language, in other words you cannot customize the name of the keyboard setting. So one is called "US" and the other is called "US" with a subscript of "2". That is almost impossible to see. Then, the key-combination for changing the language/keyboard is win-space, but that is a really hard combination to use/reach. Maybe after a while you get used to it. But in Windows it is left-alt + left-shift. The problem is that you cannot choose this combination in KDE. The software doesn't allow it. So this part of the experience is really bad. I am happy that the keyboard chosen is by default system-wide instead of per-application like in Windows. That is really bad in Windows, it is annoying or difficult in any case to remember which one you've chosen. But not being able to change it easily and not being able to see which one you have easily does not make it better.
Again sounds like you're on Plasma 5 here. Because in KDE 4 these things are all configurable. In fact I think most are in Plasma 5 too but I haven't explored it enough to know yet, and besides I'm running the Kubuntu 15.10 version of that in a VM. In KDE 4, right-clicking on the keyboard layout selector in the system tray, then clicking Configure... brings up a dialog. Under the Configure Layouts section in the middle, you can double-click the Label and edit the characters. So you could simply to US2, or merely 'U2' :) ( Oh my God that's just brought back a fragment of a dream I had the night before last, in which I wrote to Bono. I f***ing hate U2, why on Earth would I dream of that? ) In that same dialog, you can set 'Show flag' insted of Show Label, if you don't like the label colour. But that's another odd thing. The mis-matching colour is something that was present in old versions openSUSE, certainly not in any of the current versions if you use the default openSUSE KDE themeing. So it's probably because of your theme that it does that. As for the key combination, I just tried. Under 'Shortcuts for Switching Layout', next to Main Shortcuts it was set to None, so I clicked on the None button and from the list I saw Alt+Shift was available. I selected it, OK'd the dialog and it worked straight away. So it seems you have installed some program or changed the shortcuts configuration such that that combination is blocked by something else. In any case, in that dialog you can set up to three different combinations. I use Ctrl+Alt+K, the third default. gumb -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org