23 Apr
2009
23 Apr
'09
9:01 p.m.
Hmm...where do I start? ;-)
I know, there's a long list!
1. I want to be able to bring up a configuration
dialog for *all* of the
Desktop and Taskbar settings by right-clicking on the taskbar. All I get
when I do that now is a less than helpful stripped down (and ugly) bar
with a couple of settings on it.
That is not so much of a bug or missing feature as a personal
preference. However, I do share your preference and I hate the current
unintuitive and unusable panel configuration. I asked for a KDE3-style
configuration dialog in this bug:
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=165196
If you can be _very_ specific as to which options (just list them all
if you must) you would like in a single dialog, I will review it and
file the feature request.
2. A way to shut down plasma, or at least the UI
portion of it. Yes, I
know many people love the plasma interface, but many people hate it as
well. When I say get rid of it, I mean that ugly "cashew" too (I think
you can remove the "cashew" in in KDE4.3 now, but you couldn't for quite a
while).
Well, Plasma _is_ the desktop and panel. What would you have left?
Specifically, what don't you like (other than the cashew)?
3. A way to easily create a new theme--in KDE3, you
could do almost
anything with the colors, level of desired effects, etc.
You can create themes in KDE 4. Be specific as to what is different
from KDE 3 and how that affects you. I am unfamiliar with the theme
making process, so be explicit.
4. Bring back the good old kcontrol--style interface!!
My idea of a good
time is *not* clicking on icons, only to find that what I wanted was not
in that view and having to click back a couple of times before being able
to click on a different icon, which still does not contain the desired
settings...you get the point. KDE3's reliance on tree views was wonderful
from a productivity standpoint, and I hate to see that element largely
missing in KDE4.
I'll file that, and post the bug soon.
5. I want desktop previews in the pagers. This is a
very useful feature
that I sorely miss in KDE4.
I think that this is available in KDE 4.2, no?
6. Bring back the old clock, the one where I could
have it display the
time, in bold, next to the full date, unbolded.
Might this be the bug that you are looking for?
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=185447
I really, really hate the
overall rounded, bulbous look of KDE4, and wish there was an
"un-Fisher-Price-it" setting that would streamline the interface and make
it sleek again. That means no stacked text in the Taskbar, smaller icons
on the Desktop, getting rid of those huge blobs called the play, pause,
FF, and rewind buttons in Amarok, etc. Not everyone has or can afford
QXGA monitors!
You can set a more space efficient widget style in System Settings ->
Appearance -> Style. As for the Amarok Icons we can file a new bug.
Send to me a screenshot of Amarok on your monitor. Thanks.
7. Most of all, bring back the overall
configurability, and bring back
useful context menus! See my complaint in #4; that applies to almost all
elements of the KDE4 inerface. It is NOT FUN to have to click multiple
time to perform a task that you should have performed in one click under
KDE3.
That's what I am trying to do! But I need _specifics_, not a request
for "overall".
There are more, but I'm going to see if these get
fixed first. Please
don't take this list as an insult; these are some of my major issues with
KDE4, and actually, the "new" desktop overall--a lot of these complaints
apply to Vista and Mac OSX as well. KDE3 was like a fresh breeze to me
compared with those other two.
Keep them coming! Thanks!
Thanks for the offer to file the bugs!
It's for the both of us.
--
Dotan Cohen
http://what-is-what.com
http://gibberish.co.il