Hello,
I've given the first KDE 3.5 Alpha release a spin, and overall I'm very
impressed. Especially with the pager set to display the desktop background,
it just feels like I have a lot more control over all windows.
However, I do have a few suggestions of things I would like to see different.
Not all of them are new in KDE 3.5 though. I don't know if they are allready
being worked on, so here goes:
Kicker KCM:
- The Appearance tab contains a button "Advanced options", which opens a new
window, in which the Applet Handles visibility can be set. I feel this
functionality is now duplicated, since you can lock the panels now (hiding
the handles).
- In the Appearance tab, the height of the selectboxes for the button
backgrounds is greater than most other selectboxes. Personally, I think the
entire "Button backgrounds" section can be omitted, but that's just me.
file dialog:
- If you RMB on an icon, the context menu contains the submenu "View", which
allways contains the items "Zoom in" and "Zoom out". At first I didn't
understand what these were for. After trying out several other things, I
discovered that if there are images in the current folder, and thumbnails are
enabled, they control the size of the thumbnails.
I don't understand why these items are in the submenu of the open file dialog.
They aren't even available in Konquerors contextmenus. If people really want
to see a bigger thumbnail in this dialog, isn't the preview panel already
sufficient?
- The same goes for the option "View Thumbnail Previews". This can be
enabled or disabled in Konqueror, so why put it in a file dialog contextmenu?
If it belongs in the file dialog, it should be in the "Configure" menu IMH
Konqueror:
- I think the RMB submenu in the file view panel should contain the "View
Sort" submenu from the toolbar. I find myself using this function quite
often, so it should be easy to set this.
Peter
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