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
probably wouldn't like you idea of removing a feature that they use

⋗ Mouse

► Some things won't select if your cursor was moved during the click. For example elements of task manager; folders in file managers (A folder cannot be droped into itself)

► 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 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. Also it won't select if you move the cursor left or right while clicking, you have to move it up or down

► If double click interval =0 (needed to prevent bug 298556) combobox is working only while mouse button is being hold (if you make a simple click, combobox list appears and immediately disappears after the mouser button is released)

► 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

► 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

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

► After switching between windows (I have META+left/rigth_arrows for switching) minimizing the current window (META+arrow_down) or closing window with META+z don't work if META wasn't released after the switch

⋗ Kwin

► 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 which (1 or 2) of corners must be locked

► Firefox sometimes breaks it's forced size and becomes larger or smaller in width/height for several pixels

► No option to remember coordinates & sizes for all windows of all programs

⋗ Plasma

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

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

► Plasma popups appear and disappear not instantly (301841)

► 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. Also always have to move an item to the far half of another item for changing the position in the bar

► Removing plasmoids does not clean ~/.kde*/share/config/plasma-desktop* from old things, and new plasmoids don't get simple numbers, but get numbers like 49, 65, etc (282955)

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

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

✩ Imposible to remove "cashew" button. Why I can't remove it if I don't use it?

✩ The size of disconnect button in network manager. Maybe should make it not so tiny?

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

✩ No abity to change size of icons/items in the panel

⋗ Panels

► 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)

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

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

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

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

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

✩ 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). Also no option to block associations from adding new unwanted things when installing new applications (chmod a-w ~/.local/share/applications/mimeapps.list doesn't help)

✩ Sometimes I miss a feature, which will open a recently closed window by a shortcut. It may be usefull if you close a window, then realise that you still need it, but it's too late

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