On Sunday, 08 April 2012 09:03 James Knott wrote:
C wrote:
On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 14:24, James Knott<james.knott@rogers.com> 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.
You're original post also reminded me to say it happens in KDE4 on Slackware also. It (KDE4) is nothing but a PITA, unfortunately. Can't remember if it does this also on my openSuSE 11.3 partition...gonna have to boot into it and see. I also thought about trying the 'focus follows mouse' thing, but just thinking ahead about it figured it'd be such a huge mess I left it alone and just bungle along with whatever way I have to to get KDE4 to work for me. -- Powered by Slackware 13.37 12:21:13 up 23:25, 2 users, load average: 0.72, 0.76, 0.77 Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived. - Isaac Asimov Registered Linux user #214117 at http://linuxcounter.net -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org