KDE 4: the good, the bad and the broken

[Dotan Cohen]

On 9 May 2010 07:09, James Tyrer <jrtyrer at earthlink.net> wrote:
> On 04/27/10 02:07, Dotan Cohen wrote:
>> I am performing a lecture for my LUG on KDE 4: the good, the bad and
>> the broken. These are my current topics, I would like to solicit ideas
>> for further good, bad, and broken aspects of KDE 4:
>>
>> The Bad
>
> I find a couple of annoying usability issues in Konqueror.
>
> 1.  If I copy a file to a folder where I have a subfolder selected that
> the right click to open the context menu to Paste (or a variation of
> Paste) does NOT unselect the selected subfolder and the result is that
> the pasted file winds up in the selected subfolder rather than the
> opened folder.  I am fairly certain that this is a regression -- that
> this didn't happen in KDE-3.5.
>

I cannot reproduce on KDE 4.4.2, James. Even if a folder is selected,
it pastes in the current directory.


> 2.  When I use the: "Preview in -> Advanced Text Editor" that if I
> select text and right click that nothing happens.  The context menu is
> missing.  It is also a bit strange that if I use the main menu: "Edit"
> (which you have to do since you can't get to: Copy with the nonexistent
> context menu) that there are two sets of: "Cut, Copy, & Paste" with one
> grayed out (disabled).
>

Confirmed!
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=237969
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=237970


> These are also typical of the small things that are not quite right.
>
> Apprentice developers could probably fix these (and other) rough edges
> with a little help from mentors if the developers didn't object to
> someone else fixing their errors.
>
> Other things like the messed up date format in the Plasma DigitalClock
> are not simple.  One person already quite on it.  I note that I added a
> new version of my demonstration patch to:
>
>        https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162368
>
> This demonstrates the proper programing method: doing this by taking the
> locale specific Qt date format string, modifying it, and then converting
> it to a string to display.  It is here where non-specific programing
> experience is helpful.  If you can manipulate strings in one language,
> you can quickly figure out how to do it in Qt by reading the
> documentation.  That is, string manipulation is the same whether it is
> Intel x86 assembler, BASIC, or Qt -- you do the same things, only the
> functions used to do it are different.  In this case, find a string that
> matches and remove it from the Qt date format string is the needed
> operation.
>
> If I fix this, do you think that my patch will be accepted.  I only did
> enough to do what I wanted (the numerical date -- which does match the
> locale string selected in SystemSettings).
>

I don't know, but you might want to ask Aaron. He maintains most of
the  default Plasma widgets, I think.


-- 
Dotan Cohen

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