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On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 9:57 AM, Mick <michaelkintzios@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> OK, I know life moves on, but this move has been a retrograde step for me. My |
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> konqueror:5 recently updated seems to have a number of problems and <aheam!> |
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> features I am not happy with. Grateful for any pointers to address these. In |
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> no particular order. |
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> 1. The Bookmarks Toolbar will *always* show up when launching Konqueror. I |
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> deselect Settings/Toolbars Shown/Bookmark Toolbar and relaunch the |
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> application, only to find out my deselection will not stick. |
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> 2. The menu shows no icons, only text; buttons like open new tab/close current |
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> tab show no icons, making difficult to guess. |
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> 3. When used as a file manager Konqueror will only open directories or files |
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> if I double click on them. I have set up in systemsettings5 Hardware/Input |
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> Devices/Mouse/Single click to open files and folders. Konqueror ignores it. |
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> 4. All my years of Bookmarks of Konqueror:4 gone. I had to import them |
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> manually. |
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> 5. Network places, gone. |
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> 6. Left hand Panels with Places/Devices/Folders ain't thaa'r. |
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> 7. Konqueror Introduction page, no icons; unless I hover over them, |
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> hyperlinked titles shown in dark grey over a blue background. I know my eye |
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> sight is not as good as it used to be, but this is really akin to usability |
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> sabotage. |
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> The are probably more problems I have not captured above, but my experience of |
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> konqueror:5 is that of crippleware. I don't know if this has anything to do |
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> with it, I am not running konqueror on a full plasma desktop, but as a stand |
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> alone application. Have you observed similar? |
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> -- |
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> Regards, |
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> Mick |
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You should take your complaints to the project's bug tracker. I know |
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they will take number 7 very seriously, and seeing as you've used the |
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project for an appreciable amount of time they will likely consider |
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most of your other issues. |
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At the very least they would probably tell you how to do what you |
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don't know how to do. If they can't insist that there has been a |
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regression. |
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On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 4:23 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Halfway through the KDE-4 lifecycle it became known that konqueror then |
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> was essentially without a maintainer in the KDE project. Gut feels tells |
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> me that has likely not changed and the minimum work was done to get it |
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> to build under KDE-5. Just gut feel. |
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That is a good guess, but there has also been a transition away from |
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skeuomorphism (traditional desktop icons) to what Google calls |
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Material Design (which as far as I can tell was actually created by |
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various experimental Linux projects who had no artists as |
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contributors, so they just started drawing colored squares). The new |
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UI for Konquerer may be completely intentional. |
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I'd consider this not a failing of material design, which can produce |
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extremely attractive interfaces, but as a failing of the program; it |
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does look like there were features removed. To be fair a lot of things |
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that developers do (after seeing Google support it) such as |
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discoverable interfaces and minimalist UIs are often done incorrectly |
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as there tends to be a huge gulf between developers and their users. |
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And to everyone: KDE-5 doesn't exist, what you are probably referring |
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to is Plasma 5. |
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