KDE 4.3: configuring device actions

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 19:03 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Friday 07 August 2009 17:44:36 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

[...]

> UI design these days is based on scientific research.  I often don't agree with 
> the end-result, but all that proves is that I don't fit the common mold.

As a general rule yes, but what scientific research indicates that
information the user needs to configure something should be hidden from
him?

[...]

> > > How do you know that's the common case?  It is for you, and it is for me,
> > > but for others an image viewer or media player may be their most common
> > > need.
> >
> > Perhaps, but we'll never know. That's why configurability is important.
> >
> Then talk about it on Brainstorm.

I have. See
http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=113&t=65036&p=86942#p86942. Also
http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=83&t=43570&p=86914#p86914 for a
somewhat related point.

> >
> > BTW http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/Device
> > +Manager?content=106051 shows an interesting alternative to the device
> > notifier, but it doesn't seem to be available for Fedora (the Install
> > New Widgets dialogue can't find it.)
> 
> The Fedora Install New Widgets dialogue only seems to find a very few, when 
> there are dozens available.  I've no idea why.  Perhaps we should file a bug 
> report on this.  I've thought of doing so more than once, but always been too 
> busy at that point and then forgot until next time.

If the dialogue is meant to find all widgets on the kde-look.org site,
then it does seem to be a bug. I've reported it as
https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=203006

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