New subject: [trinity-devel] Second Trinity 3.5.12 Usability Test - SVN 1176205 (New Observations)

16 Sep 2010

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  New observations with using my existing ~/.kde
directory:
 1. Several new icons appeared on the desktop (root and non-root). The icons were in
the upper left of the desktop in a single horizontal row
rather than the traditional vertical row along the left side:
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  Web Browser
 My Documents
 My Computer
 Printers
 My Network Places
 There are two icons named Trash, but one was a document icon. The latter is the one
representing the original Trash.desktop file in my ~/Desktop
directory.
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  I'm curious why they appeared horizontally rather
than vertically. They appeared verically with a new, fresh Trinity desktop.
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  Home was on the desktop.
 In 3.5.10 I see only Home and Trash.
 I discovered how to disable the new icons in Configure
 Desktop/Behavior/Device Icons. Nice touch for most users! Probably needs some
documentation somewhere so new Trinity users are forewarned. :)
Were
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  those device icons added in 3.5.11 or 3.5.12? The
appropriate web pages should be updated. I don't see anything on the 3.5.11
page.
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  I presume with the new Device Icons support, that
users should delete the
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  old Trash.desktop file from ~/Desktop? Seems to work
here. 
Yes.  This was a long standing point of irritation for me; if Micro$oft
could make it easy to access those system functions, then why couldn't
KDE?  I see the configuration options have also passed the
user-discoverability test. ;-)

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 2. When I select a panel quick launch app(let) icon, or a desktop icon, the icon
flashes and grows momentarily. That likely provides useful
feedback for many people. I don't see anything obvious in the Panel
configurations to disable. Probably will slowly drive me nuts. :) Please
tell me of a way to disable that feature!

I don't see one offhand.  I never used stock KDE3.5.10 until very
recently, so I didn't even notice there was a difference!  Thank you for
bringing that to my attention; I will need to add a configuration option
to disable it.

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 3. Mentioned previously, but I'll include here now that things are getting
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  fixed. The Klipper icon in the system tray is larger
than the system tray.
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  I cannot see the top or bottom part of the icon. This
does not seem to be
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  a system tray icon problem as other system tray icons
look fine. Interestingly, this happens only on the root desktop and not my non-user
testing desktop. I renamed the klipperrc file and started X. Same
problem.
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  Screen grab:
http://humanreadable.nfshost.com/images/klipper.png 
That is downright weird.  It's probably related to the new icon resizing
support, but I wonder why it has not cropped up before, or with other
tasktray programs that share the same base code?

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  5. The root konqueror toolbars look weird.
 Screen grab: http://humanreadable.nfshost.com/images/konq.png
 Update: when I created a new fresh Trinity desktop as non-user, I saw the
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  same artifacts in the Konqueror toolbars. 
Can you send a screen grab of what they are supposed to look like?

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 I hope this helps! 
It sure does!

Tim

Re: [trinity-devel] Second Trinity 3.5.12 Usability Test - SVN 1176205 (New Observations)