kubuntu kdebase patches to plasma

Marco Martin notmart at gmail.com
Fri Nov 13 16:27:59 CET 2009


On Friday 13 November 2009, Celeste Lyn Paul wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 11:04 PM, Aaron J. Seigo <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
> > On November 12, 2009, Jonathan Riddell wrote:
> >> kubuntu_19_always_show_kickoff_subtext.diff, the subtexts in kickoff
> >> sometimes show always and sometimes on mouse over, this makes that
> >> consistent.  It's been discussed here before.
> >> http://bazaar.launchpad.net/%7Ekubuntu-members/kdebase-workspace/ubuntu/
> >>ann
> >> otate/head%3A/debian/patches/kubuntu_19_always_show_kickoff_subtext.diff
> >
> > this patch is, usability-wise, wrong. the subtexts are shown when
> > disambiguation is necessary. otherwise you need to mouse over them to
> > figure out what's what.
> 
> I'm not sure what you mean. Are you suggesting only showing the
> subtext when there are multiple applications and not for any other
> applications? And do you mean on by default or mouseover (your comment
> is ambiguous)?

I suppose the behaviour it has now.
-show only the main text, that is the generic name
-show the subtext (the app name) on mouse over
-if there are two entries with the same generic name always show the subtext, 
to disambiguare between the two

Cheers, 
Marco Martin


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