[opensuse-kde] Switching desktops
There are times that I simply cannot grok the minds of developers and this is one of them... I have a laptop, with a touchpad that handles scrolling by touching it along the side of the touchpad area. With multiple desktops, this was resulting in an extremely annoying behavior (to me) in that I would inadvertently touch the side while manipulating the mouse cursor, and the freaking desktop would switch on me. So, I decided to track down where this behavior was set and the first LOGICAL place to look for it was in the KDE Desktop Settings > Multiple Desktops > Switching Seems like a REAL APPROPRIATE place for such a setting to be found, but no joy there! Nothing, nada about mouse scroll behavior... Not believing that this was a built in "feature" I hunted and hunted around and FINALLY discovered that by right clicking on the background to bring up the context sensitivity menu, selecting Desktop Activity Settings, one finds Mouse Actions here! Why here??? And there I found the miscreant setting for mouse scrolling set to switch desktops! Why make this so difficult? Either have this setting ability located in both places so it can be more easily found, OR just locate it in the KDE Desktop Settings along with the rest of the options for controlling desktop switching. What is the rational for having two different locations/mechanisms for switching desktops? openSuSE 11.3 KDE 4.4.4 Marc.. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
Hey, On Sunday, February 27, 2011 20:54:38 Marc Chamberlin wrote:
There are times that I simply cannot grok the minds of developers and this is one of them... I have a laptop, with a touchpad that handles scrolling by touching it along the side of the touchpad area. With multiple desktops, this was resulting in an extremely annoying behavior (to me) in that I would inadvertently touch the side while manipulating the mouse cursor, and the freaking desktop would switch on me.
So, I decided to track down where this behavior was set and the first LOGICAL place to look for it was in the KDE Desktop Settings > Multiple Desktops > Switching Seems like a REAL APPROPRIATE place for such a setting to be found, but no joy there! Nothing, nada about mouse scroll behavior... Not believing that this was a built in "feature" I hunted and hunted around and FINALLY discovered that by right clicking on the background to bring up the context sensitivity menu, selecting Desktop Activity Settings, one finds Mouse Actions here! Why here??? And there I found the miscreant setting for mouse scrolling set to switch desktops!
Why make this so difficult? Either have this setting ability located in both places so it can be more easily found, OR just locate it in the KDE Desktop Settings along with the rest of the options for controlling desktop switching. What is the rational for having two different locations/mechanisms for switching desktops?
This is best discussed upstream. Please file a bugreport on bugs.kde.org about it, and assign it to plasma-desktop. Chani might be able to explain you the rationale for the location of the setting. Cheers, -- sebas http://www.kde.org | http://vizZzion.org | GPG Key ID: 9119 0EF9 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
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