Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (352 mails)

[Roger Luedecke <roger.luedecke@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday, October 13, 2011 01:27:06 PM todd rme wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2011 at 6:35 PM, Steven Sroka <sroka.steven@xxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> > > On 13 October 2011 07:39, Stephan Kulow <coolo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > http://imagepaste.nullnetwork.net/viewimage.php?id=2589 has the current
> > > default screen as submitted to factory. I hope I remembered correctly:
> > >
> > > * add folderview to default activity
> > > * leave activity manager
> > > * have default plasma theme
> > > * have 2 virtual desktops - and with it a page
> > >
> > > Note that the firefox task is a starter if you don't have any firefox
> > > open.
> >
> > This is all awesome :)
> >
> > One side note:
> > The old walnut (no longer a walnut by default ;) in the corner is
> > redundant since everything is accessible either by right clicking the
> > desktop or any widget including the panel, and the activities are
> > accessible from the task bar activity widget along with the right
> > click menu.
> >
> > I don't find the pseudo-walnut widget annoying, but I thought I would
> > draw attention to the redunancy.
>
> It is redundant in the default configuration, but it is possible to
> configure plasma so that the widget is not there and there is no
> right-click menu.  If that happens you are essentially screwed, there
> is no longer any way to get the right-click menu back without the
> walnut (without manually editing config files).  That means the walnut
> is essential to preventing a broken desktop.
>
> -Todd
This seems to be a serious design flaw, especially since one of the big goals 
of the rewrite was greater modularity... this seems rather monolithic in 
approach.
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