Kubuntu dapper-flight-6+ feedback

[Christoph Wiesen]

Am Samstag, 15. April 2006 17:07 schrieb Christoph Wiesen:
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> system:/ and media:/ kio slaves always change view mode
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> The kio slaves system:/ media:/ and probably some others use "Icon View"
> with "very large" icons. Unfortunately it will *always* switch to that view
> when you browse those kio slaves, no matter if you use something else
> (treeview for example) by default.
> KDE bug: http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=108542
>
> That's a huge annoyance as soon as you switch from kubuntus pretty large
> default icon view to something smaller. Using system:/home instead
> of /home/user by default (through system-menu) makes it worse because it
> happens a lot more often now.
> Please use /home/user in sytem-menu again if this can't be fixed in time.
>

There are more issues with system:/

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system:/ shows redundant information in taskbar and current tabs
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When you navigate inside Konqueror in system:/home/ this "system:/home/" is 
always shown in front of the current directory in following places:
- window caption
- taskbar entry on kicker
- tab inside konqueror

This is not the case for normal directories like /home/chris - if those are 
used instead of system:/ only the current directory is shown in the mentioned 
places. This enables us to distinguish between seperate konqueror windows and 
tabs. If system:/home is shown in front the real important information will 
not even be visible. 

Though I missed the real gain system:/home brings I'm sure it's not that big 
compared to it's shortcomings. media:/ is a different story, since Kubuntu 
can't handle mounting another way. I therefor suggest that system:/home is 
again replaced by /home/user.


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system:/home disallows access to anything above /home/user
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system:/home doesn't allow to change to anything higher than /home/user 
without changing the sidebar.
Maybe that's even intended, but I don't think it's necessary as user's might 
want to do administration (accessing /etc /media or something else) with the 
GUI file manager instead of konsole. 
It still is possible to change to something above /home/user when you first 
click on <Home> on the toolbar, since that will still get you to /home/user 
instead of system:/home. You then can go <up> normally.
Please don't change <home> to system:/home - that'd be really troublesome. My 
point is that system:/home just brings new limitations, that have no obvious 
security gain.



Just a visual glitch / cosmetic detail; thought I'd point it out anyway:
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Detailed List View / Tree View in Konqueror 
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When files are selected in those views the selected filenames are marked blue 
(that's ok) - but the background of those files' name column changes from 
light blue to white. That looks as if it's not intended.
Here's the KDE bug:
http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=121241