On 10/7/2010 4:56 PM, David C. Rankin wrote:
On 10/07/2010 06:07 PM, jsa wrote:
It seems to me that Kong and Dolphin share the setting of double click vs single click to open a file or folder.
I've had to revert to using Double Click because with the default mode of single click Kong and dolphin are just downright dangerous. Any attempt at focus launches the the object.
Progress -- this is progress??
The whole idea behind kde3 was to do the most with the minimum clicks or keystrokes. What happened to the smarts in KDE? (don't get me started on the placement of the 'close' button on the kate/kwrite find/replace dialog window - should be no more than 30 px from the find/replace button - not the other side of the dialog)
When I think of progress, I think smarter, more usable, more efficient, more user options -- not less smart, less usable, less efficient, less configurable.
Call it left brain, call it what you will, but this is a classic example of where KDE4 just flat failed to deliver.
We have seen some smarts put back in kde 4.5.x, hopefully they will fix the focus model to work with a single-click setup without the annoying selection markers. I raised this issue since before 4.3beta2 and still no fixes.
Oh, well..... to get work done, start fluxbox or k3, if you want to chase bugs, fire up kde4.
Chill David... I'm on your side. ;-) Other than the Double click KDE4.5.2 works pretty well on my Laptop, and suspend and Resume and Vmware work flawlessly again. After the most recent set of upgrades, FINALLY, (first time since 9.something) the Open source ATI drivers work with my Mobility Radeon 1400 card well enough to use OpenGL for Compositing. I get just over 400 FPS, which isn't great but its fast enough for me to turn on desktop effects for the first time ever, and use Google Earth again. Finally the Activities have stopped multiplying like rabbits and Dolphin works almost as well as Kong did before they lobotomized it with dolphin parts. I don't know when this all started but 4.5.2 is the first KDE that works as well as 3.2 on my hardware. Its been a long time in the wilderness. There are still irritation, but then KDE3 has a bunch of those as well. -- _____________________________________ At one time I had a Real Sig. Its been downsized. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org