On October Friday 31 2008, John Andersen scratched these words onto a coconut shell, hoping for an answer:
Basil Chupin wrote:
Perhaps I am misunderstanding what I have been reading but one can hide the taskbar using a "button" (its at either the left- or the right-hand side depending on your choice of setup).
But why bother with this additional selection of a button when the taskbar can Autohide and be brought up by simply taking the cursor to the bottom of the screen?
But Basil, why should I change the way I want to do things just because the Devs decided to leave out this useful feature (hide button)?
Why should I adopt your way? I don't want to always hide the task bar, it has a wealth of information on it. I want to quickly and easily hide it for the duration of specific tasks.
If you don't want those hide buttons you can turn them off. But if that feature is left out, no one can have them.
[rant] I just can't fathom why people jump in and defend dropping very useful features just because THEY don't use it. This is just wrong headed, arrogant, and inconsiderate. Where did that attitude come from, and how did it infect the Linux community? Has the defense of KDE4 progressed to the point that the entire open source ethos are at risk? I avoid Gimp like it had the plague. I detest Amarok. But I never suggest they should be dropped. Some people like these things. They are welcome to them. Why even chirp in with "I never use that"? [/rant]
to borrow a cool line from someone namesless ( anonymous as far as I know ) "Relax, is Linux... " ;) Eventually everything, even Yast2,( remember all the agro over that? ) becomes as useful as everything that has been left out, changed, moved or whatever the complaints are. I think it's a trueism that just about anything that ever was in Linux is still available in one way or another. And you are still using radically unfinished software in Kde4point anything. Cracks me up that some folks who profess a phobia of all things beta will jump into the latest KDE, and I would say Gnome, except there hasn't been a lot of "latest" in Gnome til very recently. :-) ( no names are even being thought about in this sentence <shrug> It's in the manner of if the shoe fits, I guess) -- j -- j "Its like a song I can hear playing right in my ear That I cant sing I cant help listening" -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org