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 ISSEUS:

- Imposible to disablie right mouse button "hold effect". 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 R

- The same unintended unexpected thing may happen when selectng multiply files with SHIFT button: they may be accidently moved instead of just being selected

- When selecting a file with selection rectange, it may unselect, if rectangle accidently becomes 0 pixels height. It is necesary to prevent the rectangle from being reduced to zero, if it has been appeared

- 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 pix) between file name and file icon in file managers, clicking on wich does nothing

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

- Imposibility of disabling wheel scrolling on task manager

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

  MOUSE & KEYBOARD ISSEUS:

- Hotkeys don't work while submenu is opened!

- Imposibility of creating hotkey combinations such as META+wheel, META+CTRL, META+ALT, META+SHIFT ———————————————————————————————————————

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

- If all windows are minimised, they are unminimising when you start a new application

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

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

- No more ability to add separators in the beginning of dolphin's taskbar for creating free space before buttons

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

- Konqueror always shows hidden places after restart