On Thursday 20 Apr 2017 14:22:06 R0b0t1 wrote: > On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 9:57 AM, Mick <michaelkintz...@gmail.com> wrote: > > OK, I know life moves on, but this move has been a retrograde step for me. > > My konqueror:5 recently updated seems to have a number of problems and > > <aheam!> features I am not happy with. Grateful for any pointers to > > address these. In no particular order. > > > > 1. The Bookmarks Toolbar will *always* show up when launching Konqueror. > > I > > deselect Settings/Toolbars Shown/Bookmark Toolbar and relaunch the > > application, only to find out my deselection will not stick. > > > > 2. The menu shows no icons, only text; buttons like open new tab/close > > current tab show no icons, making difficult to guess. > > > > 3. When used as a file manager Konqueror will only open directories or > > files if I double click on them. I have set up in systemsettings5 > > Hardware/Input Devices/Mouse/Single click to open files and folders. > > Konqueror ignores it. > > > > 4. All my years of Bookmarks of Konqueror:4 gone. I had to import them > > manually. > > > > 5. Network places, gone. > > > > 6. Left hand Panels with Places/Devices/Folders ain't thaa'r. > > > > 7. Konqueror Introduction page, no icons; unless I hover over them, > > hyperlinked titles shown in dark grey over a blue background. I know my > > eye sight is not as good as it used to be, but this is really akin to > > usability sabotage. > > > > The are probably more problems I have not captured above, but my > > experience of konqueror:5 is that of crippleware. I don't know if this > > has anything to do with it, I am not running konqueror on a full plasma > > desktop, but as a stand alone application. Have you observed similar? > > > > -- > > Regards, > > Mick > > You should take your complaints to the project's bug tracker. I know > they will take number 7 very seriously, and seeing as you've used the > project for an appreciable amount of time they will likely consider > most of your other issues. > > At the very least they would probably tell you how to do what you > don't know how to do. If they can't insist that there has been a > regression.
Thanks R0b0t1, I don't want to darken their doorstep of devs with issues which appear isolated to my systems. Other M/L participants many of whom are running the full Plasma desktop, do not seem to have such problems. So, I'm guessing I must be missing some package or other to complement the required functionality. I'm still on kmail:4 and all menu icons are shown and functionality is not crippled in any way. I fear what might happen when I eventually have to install kmail:5. > On Wed, Apr 19, 2017 at 4:23 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Halfway through the KDE-4 lifecycle it became known that konqueror then > > was essentially without a maintainer in the KDE project. Gut feels tells > > me that has likely not changed and the minimum work was done to get it > > to build under KDE-5. Just gut feel. > > That is a good guess, but there has also been a transition away from > skeuomorphism (traditional desktop icons) to what Google calls > Material Design (which as far as I can tell was actually created by > various experimental Linux projects who had no artists as > contributors, so they just started drawing colored squares). The new > UI for Konquerer may be completely intentional. > > I'd consider this not a failing of material design, which can produce > extremely attractive interfaces, but as a failing of the program; it > does look like there were features removed. To be fair a lot of things > that developers do (after seeing Google support it) such as > discoverable interfaces and minimalist UIs are often done incorrectly > as there tends to be a huge gulf between developers and their users. > > And to everyone: KDE-5 doesn't exist, what you are probably referring > to is Plasma 5. I don't recall calling it KDE-5, but if I did, Plasma 5 devs & users please accept my apologies (old dog ... new tricks). -- Regards, Mick
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