On Tuesday 14 of April 2015 16:59:02 Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> Quoting Luigi Toscano <luigi.toscano(a)tiscali.it>:
>> On Tuesday 14 of April 2015 16:16:38 Eli Wapniarski wrote:
>>> 1) If I upgrade a heavily used machine, I will also be upgrading
>>> KDEPIM... Will I lose my notebooks, filters, etc?
>>
>> KDEPIM is not part of Plasma and it hasn't been ported to Frameworks
>> 5 yet. No
>> changes there.
>>
>>> 4) and ARRRRGGGGHHHH!!! How do I get rid of the "discreet" version
of
>>> the &^*()&^ cashew???
>>
>> I still fail to understand all the hate for a small item which guarantees
>> a
>> "fixed point of restore" in case you remove everything from the
desktop.
>> But anyway, from upstream:
>>
http://vizzzion.org/blog/2015/02/killing-the-cashew-done-right/
>>
>> Ciao
>> --
>> Luigi
>
> Because it is an element on the screen that is totally unnecessary
> except for the most novice of windowing environment users. The right
> click context menu has been a feature of windowing environments for a
> very long time. And thank you for the link
You can configure the right click to not show the standard menu. Maybe a
novice user won't notice, but you can end up without a way to do anything.
Ciao
I still think it's also there as a remnant from the "netbook" UI -
tablets don't have the right-click facility :)
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Senior Software Engineer
KDE developer <lukas(a)kde.org>
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