Back to basics

KDE has many desktops, one of them being mostly Mouse/Keyboard driven. What can we do to make the things we know work in this paradigm work even better? How can we make better use of the bigger screens today's desktops have? At the same time, how well does our desktop work with netbooks?

In order to make any serious improvement in "first impressions" we need to list those seemingly small details that "annoy the hell" out of users. Let's get started!

DETAILS TO IMPROVE:

- If you change something in usability, do it with an option with checkbox - 50% of people brobably wouldn't like you idea of removing a feature that they use

MOUSE ISSUES:

- Imposible to disablie right mouse button "hold effect" (press RMB & don't release it, then move the cursor). While clicking right button, unintended unexpected selecting of menu item may happen unpredictedly!!! It would be better to make selection rectangle with right button, like in MS Wndows ®

- Unintended unexpected thing may happen when selectng multiply files with SHIFT button: they may accidently be moved instead of just being selected, if you accidently move your mouse while making the last click

- While selecting a file with selection rectange, it may unselect, if rectangle accidently becomes 0 pixels. It is necesary to prevent the rectangle from being reduced to zero, if it has been appeared at least for 1 pixel

- If double click interval =0 (needed to prevent bug 298556) combobox is working only while mouse button is being hold

- There is an empty space (1 pixel) between file name and file icon in file managers, clicking on which does nothing. The problem is not only in "detailed view"

- Imposible to disable drag-n-drop of selected text

- Selected file with rectangle over file name and selected file with rectangle not over the name is not the same! if you select a file not over the name, pressing DELETE will delete underlined file instead of selected! It's necesary to make underlineing of selected file. Also when moving or copying a file into directory, the file will be selected, but not underlined; pressng DELETE will delete not that file. Also when pressing UP/DOWN key it will not select file above/below to selected, but above/below to underlined

- Screen Edge action "Show Desktop" repetes forever - all windows blink when cursor is already in the corner but is still being moved

- Imposibility of disabling wheel scrolling on task manager (198661)

- Tooltips appear not immediately; and disappear in several seconds, instead of staing for all the time while mouse is above the object

MOUSE & KEYBOARD ISSUES:

- Hotkeys(shortcuts) don't work while contextmenu/menu is opened! (127752) (70063)

- Imposibility of creating hotkey combinations such as META+wheel, META+CTRL, META+ALT, META+SHIFT (211061) (169691) (84243) (179504)

- Shortcuts dont work with secondary layout (71147)

KEYBOARD ISSUES:

- Deletion of files steals focus - I have to press UP then DOWN keys after each deletion

KWIN ISSUES:

- If all windows are minimized, they are unminimizing when you start a new application (232374)

- No ability to resize windows without losing locked window position. But needed to make selection wich (1 or 2) of corners must be locked

PLASMA ISSUES:

- Plasma elements such as Kickoff menu, battery info, calendar of clock widget don't remember their coordinates and sizes (Kickoff menu)

- No ability to remember individual position of each program in task manager

- No simple solution for complete disabling all notifications at once (157272)

- Plasma popups don't disappear when cursor is above them (301841)

- Plasma popups appear and disappear not instantly (301841)

- Imposibility of removing "New Activity" plasmoid-button. Why I can't remove it if I don't use it?

- No more ability (4.8) to resize plasmoids like windows (164355 but in 4.4.5 it was!)

- Stupid slowpoke animation when moving task manager items. Why can't you make it nice and fast as moving tabs in dolphin? I need no animation anywhere

PANELS ISSUES:

- No more ability to add separators in the beginning of dolphin's toolbar for creating free space before buttons (202850 but in 4.4.5 the ability was TOO!!]

- Konqueror always shows hidden places after restart

- When you minimize an application which has a detached panel, the panel will not minimize with the program

- No ability to place navigation bar above tabbar in dolphn

OTHER ISSUES:

- KWallet asking three times for a password (wireless, IMAP email, POP email)

- Imposible to remember view mode for each directory without creating hiden files in them

- No ability to minimize and restore ktorrent (or other programs) by clicking on it's tray icon (166126)

- No ability to download fonts like plasma themes, cursors, icons, wallpapers

- No ability to change association for all file types in a group at once, instead of that I have to spend an hour editng every type of association. Also no ability to search associations by typing a proram name (81137) (76327)

- When changing an icon, no ability to select no icon

- No ability to hide custom files. I want to completly hide /boot, /bin, /etc & other files from my mom in all programs

- In kdesu when you enter a wrong password, the window terribly stretches (before, after)