Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2008 mails)

[Dotan Cohen <dotancohen@xxxxxxxxx>]

I am very sorry for the delay, I am having a hard time keeping up with
my university work. But I will try to address some issues this week.

> # 1   I have stated previously that I am visually impaired. I need a sound
> when a window opens or closes. There are no choices for this in the
> “notifications” in system settings. Many other sounds for all kinds of stuff
> but none for that. (Likewise for different wallpaper backgrounds on the
> virtual? Desktops? Which has been promised but is not forthcoming?) These are
> important to me. They tell me where I am by sound and sight. I usually run 6
> to 8 virtual desktops. (If that is the proper terminology)

This issue has been addressed, the feature is available in KDE 4.2.2.

> # 2    To leave, shutdown, or change user.  You used to be able to click on an
> open portion of the desktop and get a menu item to “Leave” and then a sub menu
> to do what it was that you wished. No more. It is not there. If you go the the
> “kickoff” menu it brings up the “Leave” option but when you click on it
> nothing happens. Leaving you the last choice, on the end of the taskbar or
> whatever it is called now (why was it necessary to change all of the names of
> things?) is the little red icon for “Leave” which then works properly.

Addressed in KDE 4.2.2, the Leave option has returned to the Desktop
context menu.

> # 3a   In Kmail, ( 1.11.1) in the folder list, I like to see the totals of the
> messages in that column. I have many directories to segregate my emails into
> categories. You can right click on the bar at the top which says folders and
> then gives you the choices that you want for the folder list and you can
> select it. (Total messages in my case) But you cannot see that unless you drag
> the message window way over to the right. Then when you attempt to drag the
> Total column over to the left to make a reasonably narrow Directories space
> the stupid thing jumps past folders and makes a mess. If you try to drag the
> “Totals” column just past the “Folders” it jumps all the way to the right
> again and being hidden under the message window.

It seems to work properly now. I had no problems configuring a ‎Total
column to the left of the Folder column.

> #3b Working in full screen – Composing messages by copying and pasting. Eg.
> Open a composer window and the small window opens up on the top of the full
> sized Kmail window. You want to see or copy something behind the composer
> window. You click on the main window and the composer window dissapears behind
> the main window. Now you have to reduce the main window to see the composer
> window again. Used to be that the composer window would minimize, appear in
> the task bar and a simple click would bring it up again.  A missing feature.

On my system the Composer window has a Task Bar entry. So it looks
like the problem is solved.

> #3c Cannot copy attachments (jpeg, wmv, etc) from a message in the main window
> to the composer window. Used to be able to do that easily, Two clicks. Another
> missing feature.

Which two clicks? In my test, I could easily drag attachments from the
Main window to the Composer window and attach to the new message.

> #3d Why can't you copy and paste into the "To" line or the "CC" line?

I can! Can not you?

> Dotan ASKED us to do this.

Yes, and please keep them coming! KDE 4.2 is great, really, and I want
to help iron out the last of the missing features.

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Dotan Cohen

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