I am running F10 KDE stable.
My desktop is set up with a panel along the top of the monitor (1650x1080) that has the task manager and desktop switcher on it and a second panel centered along the bottom that has various application icons and the system tray in it. Overall, I really like this layout. Kudos to the KDE team for a great desktop manager.
However, my setup has an annoying aspect to it: when copying multiple links simulaneously, the Copying... windows stack up over Konqueror such that you can't access it until they decide to recede.
I am trying to decide if this behavior is because of something that I have set or if its inherent in KDE and I should write a change request for it.
Example: open Konqueror and browse to www.rcsoaring.com . Click on the RCSD Archive link. You will be presented with a page of links to download the magazine PDFs.
Now lets say that you would like to download a years worth of magazine for browsing offline. To download a single issue, I place the cursor over a link and right click "Save Link As..." and then select the save location. When I do this, a Copying... window appears from the system tray.
This is all fine and well until I rapidly select a bunch of links. Every time I copy another link, another Copying window stacks itself on top of the preceding window stack until the application under the center of my display is obscured behind the stack. The Copying window stack does disappear after a bit, but there doesn't seem to be a way to make it disappear under my control.
All in all, I find this behavior annoying. Is there a way to change it with different settings ?
Thanks for listening.
Linuxguy123 wrote:
The Copying window stack does disappear after a bit, but there doesn't seem to be a way to make it disappear under my control.
One thing you can do is Click the (I) to immediately close/hide the stack
All in all, I find this behavior annoying. Is there a way to change it with different settings ?
Not that I'm aware.
-- Rex
On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 10:56 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
Linuxguy123 wrote:
The Copying window stack does disappear after a bit, but there doesn't seem to be a way to make it disappear under my control.
One thing you can do is Click the (I) to immediately close/hide the stack
What do you mean by the "I" ? If its the leftmost icon in the window header, that suspends the download.
Furthermore, once you hide the window stack, how do you get it back if you need it ? It would be nice if they presented themselves as an item in the system tray the same way that applications do in the task manager.
All in all, I find this behavior annoying. Is there a way to change it with different settings ?
Not that I'm aware.
Interesting.
Thanks for the reply, Rex.
On 05/14/2009 11:03 AM, Linuxguy123 wrote:
On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 10:56 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
Linuxguy123 wrote:
The Copying window stack does disappear after a bit, but there doesn't seem to be a way to make it disappear under my control.
One thing you can do is Click the (I) to immediately close/hide the stack
What do you mean by the "I" ? If its the leftmost icon in the window header, that suspends the download.
The (I) thingy in the systray that appears when you have notifications.
To make things appear again, click it again.
-- Rex
I think he means the - i - button in the system tray. Haven't seen an | (or l? or I?) button. :D
On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Rex Dieter rdieter@math.unl.edu wrote:
On 05/14/2009 11:03 AM, Linuxguy123 wrote:
On Wed, 2009-05-13 at 10:56 -0500, Rex Dieter wrote:
Linuxguy123 wrote:
The Copying window stack does disappear after a bit, but there doesn't seem to be a way to make it disappear under my control.
One thing you can do is Click the (I) to immediately close/hide the stack
What do you mean by the "I" ? If its the leftmost icon in the window header, that suspends the download.
The (I) thingy in the systray that appears when you have notifications.
To make things appear again, click it again.
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Linuxguy123 wrote:
However, my setup has an annoying aspect to it: when copying multiple links simulaneously, the Copying... windows stack up over Konqueror such that you can't access it until they decide to recede.
i seldom use konqueror as a web browser, mainly as a file browser.
does this stacking occur when copying multiple files on hard drive, or just when copying on internet?
as a suggestion, instead of right click, try <f9> to open navigation panel, select 'root folder', then open tree to directory that you want files saved to. then drag and drop to see if you only get 1 loading window.
this does work with kde 3.5.4-18.el5 and may work under kde 4.x.
hth.
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