KDE network and dialog issues

[Iñaki Baz Castillo]

El Divendres, 23 de Març de 2007, Orville Bennett escribió:
> On Mar 22, 2007, at 7:15 PM, Iñaki Baz Castillo wrote:
> > http://kde.aliax.net/kde_issues/network
>
> "And why doesn’t appear KWalletManager asking me to introduce the
> password???"
> It does. On the correct desktop. If it appeared on all desktops then
> you'd get all the people going up in arms about "confusing dialogs"
> which appear out of nowhere, certainly leading to "another big
> usability issue".

No, I don't agree with you at all. The default KDE settings in any distro 
include usually 4 virtual desktops, so if the users starts session and must 
guestt in which virtual desktop is Kwallet asking for the password then this 
is annoying.

Instead of an uncomfortable popup dialog in an unknown desktop there could 
appear a ball in the systray (from kwallet icon) asking for the password, or 
something like that. But something appearing in all the desktops (not a 
windowin fact, but a ball dialog).


> "KDE should be improved in making easier the dynamic network
> connections and the communication between applications (Kmail
> shouldn’t try to download mail if there is not network active). Maybe
> Solid could help here."
> Excerpted from solid.kde.org (you know, the site you linked):
> "We're now facing the wireless revolution...Computing lost its last
> limitation to a fully dynamic environment, and users must be able to
> make use of it.
> So, we created the Solid API in order to allow KDE applications to
> reach this new dynamic environment...Solid will be tested again and
> again, to ensure the most bug safe behavior, because network and
> portable devices are things the user specially wants to just work."

Ok, but I don't know exactly how Solid will work and just wanted to tell my 
experience issues in now the last KDE version. I'll be really happy is my 
issues are already fixed in the KDE4 design, but they are not in KDE3. 


> "The warning dialogs should be improved too (Kmail shouldn’t show 6
> warning dialogs, one for each account, if there is not network)."
> http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=103927

But this is not just a Kmail problem, this kind of issue appears in many ways. 
I suppose the solution is Solid and the apps asking it if there is network or 
not.



> P.S. Please do a little more research before launching a blog spam
> bitchathon.

Do you really thing I was doing blog spamming? It's the only way I can report 
an experience, ideas or mockups with images and description. Or should I 
attach each image to the list??? please, don't accuse me of spamming.


Regards.


-- 
Iñaki Baz Castillo