I'm not really talking about bugfixes here, more little tweaks to the desktop experience that wouldn't take long to implement, but would significantly improve your KDE experience! And don't worry, if you have a fourth one that you desperately need to say or anything then just go for it!

Ok, here are mine:

1) Streamlined adding of link plasmoids. For example, when I am in the K Menu and want to add one of the programs to the desktop, I have to leave it, unlock the widgets, go back in, add the item to my desktop, do any moving that's required and then lock the widgets again! This feels a little long-winded to me!

2) Smoother expanding and shrinking of the system tray. At the moment the system tray just jumps out to display all icons and then jumps back in when you click the arrow again, which is a bit of a shame because the Task Manager is looking so polished and fluid now. Is this an intended change?

3) More accurate settings for the quick tiling feature. I don't necessarily mean to make it more powerful or anything too extreme, but it would just be nice to say, be able to drag and window to the side of the screen while holding a key to activate tiling, as then if I was not holding the key I could make it simple change virtual desktops when it hits the side. As it stands at the moment, I can kinda only really have one or the other ._.


So yeah that's that! I thought this might be a nice way to just get some user feedback on those tiny tweaks that could make all the difference for KDE's success in the future!

Thanks and see you round everyone,

Hoppi!

a way to disable the cashew (without having to resort to another plasmoid!)
a places or media panel for konqueror
a way to disable plasma toolboxes popping up without locking the desktop

not so small, else I guess it would have been done: smooth resizing of windows (especially konsole but other apps too) when effects are enabled

aapgorilla wrote:a way to disable the cashew (without having to resort to another plasmoid!)

That one is quite easy. Ok, not to disable it, but to hide it, so you won't see it anymore.

Unlock the widgets, set a/the panel to "Auto-Hide" and drag the cashew to where the panel used to be. Now set the panel back to "Always visible" and lock the widgets again. Tada, no cashew!

For example:
widgets unlocked (see the cashew behind the one of the panel?)

widgets locked


If you have a (semi-)transparent panel like me, it will be the best, to leave the cashew in a corner, with full-colored panels it should not matter where it is.

this is a workaround, I want an easy setting to disable/hide it this useless thing,

It won't happen, it's been stated multiple times by the developers. Asking for it is no more useful than flogging a dead horse.

einar wrote:It won't happen, it's been stated multiple times by the developers. Asking for it is no more useful than flogging a dead horse.

The reason it won't happen is because of some childish no "we won't", the patch to add an option to disable it is trivial according to Thomas (Luebking)

You know I started experimenting with linux for real in the early compiz day and I thought this concept of the cube (this was early 2006!) with all those different virtual desktops was so cool, innovative and useful and I really tried to make use of it but it didn't take very long well less than 2 wks to figure out that it was just a clumsy concept with no practical use whatsoever, which just add confusion instead of order and clarity to the desktop, kde4's activities (oh yes I tried activities) just take this one step further...


Really activities (and multiple desktops) are failed concepts, please get rid of them or at least don't waste space on my desktop advertising them (on a side note I have a phone which is activity based (lg s-class) and in the beginning I thought well activities do work on these small screens (it has a cube with 4 activities and an extra main menu) at first I strted using the activities but after a while I completely gave up on these as well and just used the main menu). I'll repeat activities sound cool but using them for most people just means doing more work than doing it the traditional way

I use activities frequently on plasma-netbook, where they serve a very clear purpose. "Please get rid of them" isn't an option. The reason for activities being there isn't because you HAVE to use them right here, right now - which I don't remember the Plasma devs ever claiming - it's so that, when they are needed in the future (planned nepomuk, solid and geolocation integration), they can just be used instead of having to be developed (messily hacked into whatever would be there, if not Plasma as we know it right now).

1. don't lock icon size in preview mode, it's silly

2. flip clock screensaver

3. improve open sound system support

edit: oss works great, that wiki seems to have outdated info or something

Madman wrote:I use activities frequently on plasma-netbook, where they serve a very clear purpose. "Please get rid of them" isn't an option. The reason for activities being there isn't because you HAVE to use them right here, right now - which I don't remember the Plasma devs ever claiming - it's so that, when they are needed in the future (planned nepomuk, solid and geolocation integration), they can just be used instead of having to be developed (messily hacked into whatever would be there, if not Plasma as we know it right now).

I am not asking to get rid of activities (which for me are useless) but I am asking to add an option to hide a for me and many other useless a useless space consuming and distracting item.

right now if I could change the panel color I would be happy

Nice to see that people still complain about the same things and developers still don't listen. Definitly the way to success.

samhain wrote:Nice to see that people still complain about the same things and developers still don't listen. Definitly the way to success.

And it's not what I'd call a constructive post. I strongly suggest you to re-read the Code of Conduct, to which all users must abide.

Would be very happy seeing some simpler way handling sound.
Am getting lost sometimes in all these different components like Xine, GStreamer, Phonon, PulseAudio,....
For example, i still can't get the equalizer effective in Amarok 2.2.1.
Using the equalizer presets, nothing changes to the sound.
Know this is not a KDE-issue as such, but would be great KDE could simplify this.

Can we please keep these things centralised and post them as ideas under the brainstorm section? This will make it easier for potential developers to find itches to scratch.

Moult wrote:Can we please keep these things centralised and post them as ideas under the brainstorm section? This will make it easier for potential developers to find itches to scratch.

I know, sorry I did realize when I made this thread that of course these things could be posted under Brainstorm

I guess I was just curious to outline if people had very few, small changes that would make all the difference to them

But yeah that's cool, maybe we should just use the Brainstorm section!