On Tuesday, May 31, 2011 22:56:37 Richard Moore wrote: > 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.
I think most of it is fixed by using the network management plasmoid instead of knetworkmanager, though I don't think it'd help the firmware issue. > 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. -- sebas http://www.kde.org | http://vizZzion.org | GPG Key ID: 9119 0EF9 _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel
