I've filed a bug addressing the super-size battery plasmoid without useful information: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205707
You're welcome to post comments or vote for it.
While I agree with your assessment of the situation, you are lucky that the bug was a dupe. Your sarcasm would have been the end of the bug, fixed or not. Please, continue filing bugs but don't use sarcasm. You might want to see this bug regarding the size of the plasmoid as well: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167132
Hm, when I wrote this text yesterday I thought about the battery plasmoid in more detail, and I came to the conclusion that it can't be meant seriously. Therefore I thought it would be OK to write it that way. Seemingly I was wrong in this point. Sorry.
Furthermore I'm not sure if the duplicated bug report is going into the direction of KLaptop. Doesn't seem so. They are not discussing a steadily progress bar. But if I would join this discussion it could get very long. It's better for me to wait some months. Maybe in the meantime another developer writes an alternative plasmoid addressing my issue. I think that's more likely than fixing the default battery plasmoid.
Can you check that against other tree views in KDE and either confirm that this is inconsistent with the rest of KDE, or that all of KDE needs to be improved here. Thanks!
Hm, I couldn't find another KDE application with a tree so fast. Sorry.
Kmail and Dolphin have tree views.
OK, that might be. I'm not familiar with them. I'm going to test them in the next days.
- moving the slider between the tree and the current settings does not work.
But in some cases it would be necessary.
I do not understand, could you be more specific? Thanks.
Ah, sorry. I meant the splitter between the tree and the current settings, marked in this screenshot with "Drag here": http://stefan.endrullis.de/kde/system-settings-drag.png
That is an interesting issue. I have no problem dragging the splitter to widen the treeview. Can you check if the splitter in other apps does not work for you (kmail, dolphin)?
Hm, interesting. I will test it in those apps, too.
As long as it is not needed I don't want to have a horizontal scrollbar in the tree. That's why I would try to use the splitter to resize the tree.
I agree, I would even prefer to see lines wrap than a horizontal scrollbar appearing! I filed this: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205780
If you want to attach your second screenshot there, it would be great.
Yes, of course. Thanks for the bug report.
But also apparently minor issues like the navigation in trees are important for. Fast keyword work was always one of the key features of KDE3, I think. Sadly in KDE4 the possibility of keyboard navigation was completely ignored. Just try to save a screenhot in ksnapshot by using only the keyboard. You can navigate to a directory and press ENTER. Instead of changing into this directory, ksnapshot thinks you want to enter the dir AND save the file afterwards. Strange implementation! I would never expect both actions at the same time.
Please write a "this is what I did, this is what I expected, this is what happened" format, I'll verify and file it. but make sure that you are on KDE 4.3 first, as it is a bit different than KDE 4.2. Thanks!
Open ksnapshot and create a screenshot. Press "Save As", click on "Home", and click on the background of the directory list. Now you can do a quick keyboard navigation. Enter the directory name in which you want to change. Then press ENTER. Normally one would expect that you only change into this directory when pressing ENTER. But the open dialog does not only change into the directory, but saves also the file in this dir afterwards. This is unintuitive. If the cursor / focus is in the directory list ENTER should only be used for the navigation in the directory tree. Only when I changed to the filename input field (by pressing TAB) and press ENTER I would expect the file to get saved.
You are 100% right. I am plagiarizing your reproduction instructions here: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205781
Thanks.
Thanks, Stefan. You really have an eye for details, please keep me update with them of file them! But just remember when filing that the devs demand a very factual style, please don't give them a reason to evade the bug with sarcasm. Have a great week!
Yes, I try to get rid of my personal dislike of KDE4 and I will be more careful when filing bugs in future.
Regards, Stefan