I am confused

[Lukáš Tinkl]

Dne 14.4.2015 v 16:09 Luigi Toscano napsal(a):
> On Tuesday 14 of April 2015 16:59:02 Eli Wapniarski wrote:
>> Quoting Luigi Toscano <luigi.toscano at 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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