On Tuesday 20 January 2009 15:47:49 Martin Kho wrote:
On Tue, Jan 20, 2009 at 2:27 PM, Anne Wilson cannewilson@googlemail.com
wrote:
On Tuesday 20 January 2009 00:38:35 Martin Kho wrote:
My question had nothing to do with the placement of Kickoff on the panel, but with the Kickoff menu itself. Go to the Applications tab and click any item with sub-items. Then you see to the left the 'blue-back-bar-button'. Drop your mouse to the left edge and you can't press the 'back-button'. In the stable version of KDE - 4.3.1 - there was no space between the left edge and the Kickoff menu. My 'problem' has to do with the latest kde testing - 4.1.96 - version.
I have 4.1.96-1.fc10.i386. Clicking anywhere on the blue panel takes me back as expected - even taking it as low as I can. There is a tiny (2px-wide?) white border between the blue and the black icon-backgrounds. However, I couldn't persuade my mouse pointer to click there at all, as it always tried to activate the Favourites tab. Nor do I have anything that I recognise as "space between the left edge and the Kickoff menu". Sorry, I can't reproduce your problem at all. Perhaps a screenshot of the menu would help, so that we can see this space?
Anne
I have version: 4.1.96-1.fc10.x86_64. In the screenshot below you can see the space between the blue 'back-buttonbar' and the left *screen* edge (see red arrow). May be it wasn't clear I meant the left screen edge.
Yes, it was clear enough, but it took a screenshot before I really understood what you meant. Looking at mine, it seems to be a rather strong frame to the widget, nothing more, so what we really need is the ability to have the widget with or without a frame, as you can with the picture-frame.
Btw. Anne, did you see the bugreport at kde: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158675. Especially Carsten Wolff's comment.
I use a full-width panel, so I've never seen the problem described there.
It's odd how some things are so important to working practices for some users, yet irrelevant to others. I hadn't even noticed the frame until you pointed it out to me. I thought I was the world's worst mouse-user, yet it had never caused me a problem :-) Still, I'd guess that asking for the frame to be optional might be your best bet.
Anne