Inconsistencies confusing me

[Aaron J. Seigo]

On Wednesday 25 June 2008, Frank Schmitt wrote:
> In KDE 4, I right click, get "Panel Settings" and a black bar above the
> panel appears.

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163634

> Ok, now I wanted to add an icon which runs "xterm -title kde4daily -e
> screen -RDA" and displays my favourite icon with a grinning devil. In

the Icon applet is not displayed in Add Applets due to missing configuration UI 
for it. you can, however, create one in a number of ways (ranging from 
dropping content from the file manager to remove the NoDisplay=true from the 
plasma-applet-icon.desktop file).

really what's needed is a nice application icon configuration dialog so we can 
show an "Application Icon" widget.

> the same dialog as in 3.5 and immediately know what to to. I click ok
> when finished and I dialog updating system settings pops up. WTF? I

yes, the properties dialog tries to update the system versus make a local copy 
of the .desktop file. kicker used to hold its hand a lot more. plasma will need 
to hold its hand a bit as well, which it doesn't currently do.

> start the menu again and the entry "System->Terminal" I dragged and
> dropped to the panel is gone! I wanted a copy and I guess I did move
> it?

if you changed it on the desktop, then you've changed the menu entry. they 
represent the actual entry (Terminal).

> Staying at the menu: I'm constantly irritated by the fact that hovering
> over the buttons at the bottom changes between "Favorites",
> "Applications", "Computer" etc, while I have to click in order to change
> between the hierarchy levels. Why this inconsistency?

right click -> settings -> uncheck "Switch tabs on hover".

> However, KDE 4.1 has some very nice sides, too and is a huge improvement
> over 4.0 and I'm sure some great release will base on it,

=)

> however those
> points above seriously spoiled my first minutes with it.

unfortunate.

so now what?

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Aaron J. Seigo
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