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Am Freitag, 19. März 2010, 21:40:41 schrieb Reinhold Kainhofer:
> I have several other issues (rather small, but sometimes also annoying and
> embarassing, like the mail notifications popping up when you are doing a
> full screeen presentation with acroread in front of 180 actuaries...), so
> I'll try to send a list to this mailing list for discussion, when I find
> the time.
Okay, finally, here is a list of things I find annoying or wrong in Plasma
(sorry it took me so long, but I just have too much other stuff to do).
First, my configuration:
-) Auto-hiding panel at the bottom
-) Panel is ~63 pixel high, window list is configured to three rows
-) I have my mouse set to "Activating on mouse contact"
And here is a list of my annoyances:
1) Whenever a new notification appears, the whole panel is unhidden and hides
the bottom of the current window (which makes working impossible if you are
typing e.g. in a konsole window).
2) When you display the calendar (by clicking on the clock), the whole panel
is unhidden and does not hide until you hide the calendar, too. You can work
in other applications just fine, but the panel will always hide the bottom
part of the window.
3) Notifications also appear when you are in full screen mode and doing a
presentation (with acroread as well as with okular, so KDE applications are
also affected). This can be very embarassing when you are doing a presentation
4) With an external beamer attached (second screen configured via nvidia-
settings and set to place the second screen to the right), the Alt+Tab window
switcher seems to appear only on the external screen, but not on the laptop
display (I would prefer it the other way round!)
5) With an external beamer attached (laptop screen is 1280x800, external
screen is a bit smaller), the auto-hidden panel cannot be reached at all any
more!
The notifications appear on the external display though (which is again
embarassing, they should appear on the main laptop display, not on the beamer)
6) The Alt+Tab switcher uses centered window titles. Normally that is no
problem, but if you have e.g. a kompare window open with deep absolute pathes,
both pathes are in the window title, making the switcher something like twice
the screen width... (which means the icon is on the far left side of the
screen, and the window title start near the right edge of the screen)
7) Every now and then typing e.g. "gg:something" into the runner does not give
any suggestions and does not do anything when you press enter. if you close
the runner and call it again, things work again. Unfortunately, I'm unable to
reproduce it (it just happens every now and then)
8) I have unison and unison-gtk (the GUI) installed. Typing in unison
sometimes calls the GUI (which has a .desktop file and and title "Unison 2.x.x
(GTK)"), while sometimes it seems to call the command line application
"unison"
9) The Device manager plasmoid does not contain my NDAS drives. "blkid" shows
them as detected block devices, but the list simply ignores them. How can I
configure which devices are shown in the plasmoid' s list?
10) The configuration of the Panel is just so different from everything
else...
11) when I have the panel configuration panel open and accidentally move the
cursor just one pixel out of the panel, the config panel is immediately hidden
and I have to open it again manually -- very annoying
12) Every now and then the vertical offset of the devices in the device
manager panel is messed up and the device list seems to start at a large
negative offset, so only the last few pixel of the whole list is visible any
more. I can't exactly reproduce it, but it seems to happen when the actions
for a device are shown in the list and then something happens that hides the
panel without calling that action....
13) The weather applet shows no current status for Vienna, just an icon that
does not give any indicatino what it is for...
Also, the weather applet's panel uses a Button to select the type of display.
For Vienna, there is only a 4 day preview available, so one " 4 days" button
is displayed. However, when you click on that button, nothing happens, so I
thought that applet was totally broken, while it simply makes the mistake to
show a list of available styles via buttons (and shows the currently selected
item as a button, when though that is the only item that cannot be clicked!)
14) About the horizontal lists for adding applets I already wrote a while ago,
so I won't repeat it here, but I still think the horizontal list is much worse
than the former vertical list.
Of course, this list is not necessarily complete, it shows however the most
annoying things about plasma that I'm encountering as a KDE user who uses KDE
on his office and home machines for real-life work.
Cheers,
Reinhold
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Reinhold Kainhofer, reinh...@kainhofer.com, http://reinhold.kainhofer.com/
* Financial & Actuarial Math., Vienna Univ. of Technology, Austria
* http://www.fam.tuwien.ac.at/, DVR: 0005886
* LilyPond, Music typesetting, http://www.lilypond.org
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