systemsettings buggy

Achim Bohnet ach at mpe.mpg.de
Wed Feb 15 16:30:35 GMT 2006


On Wednesday 15 February 2006 16:53, Martin Ammermüller wrote:
> Am Mittwoch, 15. Februar 2006 12:56 schrieb Sebastian Kügler:
> > What can we do about systemsettings behaving that way?
> >
> > http://vizzzion.org/tmp/displayconfig-systemsettings.png
> >
> > * The administration mode button is not shown, also often other
> > buttons, such as 'apply', 'reset' are lost
> > * Resizing the Window does not show the content that has to be in
> > there, but partly the overview of kcm modules
> > * The show-all button often does not have any effect, means that I
> > need to kill systemsettings and restart it
> >
> > I've pointed those bugs out after right after the release of breezy
> > already, and it's still there. :(
> 
> I strongly agree. This bug make systemsettings partly useless with a 
> screen resolution of 1024x768 (e.g. the printer module is so large that 
> i have to move kicker out of the way to click the accept etc. buttons) 

A tip for windows that are not maximied:  Press and hold 'Alt', click LMB move
the mouse.  This moves the window without the need to click in the window title
area.

> and absolutely useless with a 800x600 screen resolution (yes, i have 
> such a machine here...).

yes.
> 
> As of now, i use kcontrol instead of systemsettings because of that.

Ditto.

Achim
> 
> Regards,
> Martin Ammermüller
> 

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