Back to basics

[Rick Stockton]

On 08/17/2012 03:16 PM, "Aaron J. Seigo" <aseigo at kde.org> wrote:
> On Thursday, August 16, 2012 21:47:12 Nuno Pinheiro wrote:
>> >one thing lead to another and I acoured to me that the timing is perfect for
>> >a release were we focus on the basic desktop, and we market it just like
>> >that a "back to basics" release for the big 4.10, so we would do a few
>> >litle thing that improve the basic desktop experience the things people use
>> >90% of the time, and we market that, we market that we still care about
>> >mouse and keyboard interaction and what works.
> i respect and admire the desire to make things better. that's always a good
> thing. but what thing(s) should be better?
>
> you mention at some point the mouse/keyboard driven concept (because we've
> obviously left that behind or something apparently) and that is perhaps a good
> start. so WHAT aspect of mouse/keyboard interaction could be improved?
> -- 
> Aaron J. Seigo
Hmmm. I think that we have already been told, by perhaps 3000+ bug 
votes, what we are missing. There are perhaps 50 bugs (SWAG) asking for 
the same thing, but they failed to find each other by blaming different 
Libraries and sub-modules:

Bug 96431 <https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=96431> "Ability to use 
mouse buttons for shortcuts", 671 votes, blames KCM.

Bug 48062 <https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48062> "Additional mouse 
buttons as TOGGLE SWITCHES (sic) for modifier keys". 1828 votes, blames 
KDELIBS/GENERAL (and that's why it got most of the votes). But nearly 
all of the comments are asking for mouse shortcuts, #96431; so I'm 
counting nearly all of the votes as "actually for 96431", as well". What 
remains of this BugID (under the revised, more specific Description) is 
an Assistive Technology enhancement request. I request for which I have 
great respect, but I don;'t think that it got all of these votes votes.

Bug 171295 <https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=171295> "Shortcuts from 
additional devices (mouse, lirc, bluetooth, joystick) 425 votes, blames 
SystemSettings. I'll Again SWAG more than 90% of those votes to be about 
the mouse, and nearly none to be about LIRC and BlueTooth devices.

That's just the top 3, with 2900 votes already. Count their closed 
duplicates, count a lot of mouse-oriented konqueror shortcut RFE's, and 
I suspect that we reach 4000 votes pretty quickly. From there, proceed 
to the people who looked and saw 4000 votes already, and _NOTHING DONE, 
IN 10+ YEARS_. They didn't bother voting. Now expand the count from 
non-voting Bugzilla members to the wider population of KDE users, and 
then to the large number of users who didn't choose us - BECAUSE because 
we lack mouse shortcut support.

Yes, I screamed. Sorry, but we deserve it.




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