Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1196 mails)

[James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>]

C wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 14:24, James Knott<james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx>  wrote:
> > One thing I've noticed is that KDE4 simply doesn't work as well as KDE3,
> > even ignoring the differences in features.  For example, often when I click
> > on something to open it, I have to hunt to see where it is, rather than it
> > opening on top of everything else.  I also find that when something opens,
> > it often does not have focus for the keyboard, so that if, for example, I
> > press Alt-F2 to run something, I find that even though the box opens, I wind
> > up typing into another app.
> >
> > In this aspect alone, KDE4 has a long way to go to catch up to KDE3, even
> > before considering the things that are no longer possible in KDE4.
> Have you tweaked a setting somewhere?  i haven't encountered this
> issue you present as an example of a problem with KDE4 at all.. and I
> just tested it following your example and it behaves as you are
> expecting it to not how you are describing it (ie I open an app using
> Alt+F2 and focus is immediately shifted to the new app once it's
> open).
>
> C.

It's not consistent.  That's why I said "often".  There is a setting in 
Personal Settings for Window Behaviour.  At someone's advice here, I 
changed it to "Focus follows mouse", but it didn't do much.

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