I did a fresh install of suse 11.4 yesterday, and the result was less polished than I would have hoped. Here's what I spotted and some suggestions for addressing them:
After a few things had launched, knetworkmanager vanished. I know in retrospect that it was simply that the notification area got too big and it was hidden. The arrow indicating the hidden icons is currently too difficult to spot unless you know what it is, perhaps it could flash when it is initially created (possibly with some animation that things are moving there) so that people will know to look for it (i didn't). Alternatively, perhaps simply changing the colour of the icon would help - I think my confusion was a result of thinking the arrow was simply another app sitting in the status area. Once I couldn't get access to knetworkaccessmanager, I tried launching it from the command line and got no output and no visibility. I'm guessing it's a kuniqueapplication so it will only run once. notmart suggested a fix here would be to make the notifier status 'notify' when newInstance is called. The next issue I hit was a wifi problem (the root cause was not KDE's fault in anyway) unfortunately it wasn't handled well by the GUI either. The first issue was poor diagnostics - I didn't get a gui message that a firmware blob was needed, and instead had to look in /var/log/messages. I suspect this is an underlying NetworkManager issue. Installing the blob didn't fix things (not KDE's fault either) but I did start to get lots of popup notifications from KNetworkManager. Unfortunately whenever I tried to use the context menu to access it and see what was up, another notification would appear, and in the process cancel the menu. This was incredibly frustrating. I'm not quite sure how we can handle this, but perhaps a strategy similar to the one used by syslog of reverting to 'repeated X times' might be a good idea. One thing I must say is that I do like the new icons for the status area, it no longer looks like it was designed by a lover of hawaiian shirts. :-) Cheers Rich. _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
