On 08/17/2012 03:16 PM, "Aaron J. Seigo" <ase...@kde.org> wrote:
On Thursday, August 16, 2012 21:47:12 Nuno Pinheiro wrote:
>one thing lead to another and I acoured to me that the timing is perfect for
>a release were we focus on the basic desktop, and we market it just like
>that a "back to basics" release for the big 4.10, so we would do a few
>litle thing that improve the basic desktop experience the things people use
>90% of the time, and we market that, we market that we still care about
>mouse and keyboard interaction and what works.
i respect and admire the desire to make things better. that's always a good
thing. but what thing(s) should be better?

you mention at some point the mouse/keyboard driven concept (because we've
obviously left that behind or something apparently) and that is perhaps a good
start. so WHAT aspect of mouse/keyboard interaction could be improved?
--
Aaron J. Seigo
Hmmm. I think that we have already been told, by perhaps 3000+ bug votes, what we are missing. There are perhaps 50 bugs (SWAG) asking for the same thing, but they failed to find each other by blaming different Libraries and sub-modules:

Bug 96431 <https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96431> "Ability to use mouse buttons for shortcuts", 671 votes, blames KCM.

Bug 48062 <https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48062> "Additional mouse buttons as TOGGLE SWITCHES (sic) for modifier keys". 1828 votes, blames KDELIBS/GENERAL (and that's why it got most of the votes). But nearly all of the comments are asking for mouse shortcuts, #96431; so I'm counting nearly all of the votes as "actually for 96431", as well". What remains of this BugID (under the revised, more specific Description) is an Assistive Technology enhancement request. I request for which I have great respect, but I don;'t think that it got all of these votes votes.

Bug 171295 <https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171295> "Shortcuts from additional devices (mouse, lirc, bluetooth, joystick) 425 votes, blames SystemSettings. I'll Again SWAG more than 90% of those votes to be about the mouse, and nearly none to be about LIRC and BlueTooth devices.

That's just the top 3, with 2900 votes already. Count their closed duplicates, count a lot of mouse-oriented konqueror shortcut RFE's, and I suspect that we reach 4000 votes pretty quickly. From there, proceed to the people who looked and saw 4000 votes already, and _NOTHING DONE, IN 10+ YEARS_. They didn't bother voting. Now expand the count from non-voting Bugzilla members to the wider population of KDE users, and then to the large number of users who didn't choose us - BECAUSE because we lack mouse shortcut support.

Yes, I screamed. Sorry, but we deserve it.




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