On Saturday 18 September 2010 00:18:54 Timothy Pearson wrote: [...] > > 3. I never understood the blind acceptance of four virtual desktops. > > Most > > > new users will appreciate two. > > Sorry; I don't agree here. I can't imagine life without four desktops +1 > > 5. Digital clocks are geeky. Just choose Plain as the default. > > Agree; changed. I preffer LCD-look because is easier to see the clock when I'm away from computer. [...] > > 9. I don't understand the fetish and dumbing down with the default view > > in Konqueror with icons. Set the default view to Tree View, and Show Hidden Files. Treat users like adults and not kids. :) > > Sorry, disagree. I like the intuitive icon view myself, and even by their > name, hidden files are supposed to be hidden! ;-) I can see too many > "oops, I just dragged and dropped my .<critical system file> who knows > where and now I can't use my computer" type complaints cropping up. Maybe sometime we will replace konqueror with dolphin. I never used konq as filemanager because I feel it too slow and uncomfortable. I started using dolphin when I begin to create cmake scripts for kdelibs and seems pretty versatile and agile (for example filtering is very useful feature). [...] > > 11. A bug: Selecting the My Documents Device Icon results in an error > > because the ~/Documents directory does not exist. I personally would get > upset if any software created such a directory on my system. On the other > > > hand, I think when a person explicitly enables that device icon then > > such > > > a directory should get created. No, not quite. I think when a person > > enables that directory a pop-up should appear asking for the path to that > > > directory. The default would be ~/Documents, but the user can change the > > text in the popup text box. In this case I think is better to follow xdg standards. For example, for user documents, xdg_user_dir_lookup("DOCUMENTS"). Check http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/xdg-user-dirs > > 12. I'm glad you selected to display both software names and > > descriptions in the K-Menu. I always empathize with new users and they > > need both. > > Flip a coin, but I prefer Description (Name) rather than Name > > (Description). Bad ideea. For example I have 4 webbrowsers. I do not want to start one of it, but specific one. And I can continue with many examples. [...] -- Serghei