Ryan Schultz said... > On Friday 04 November 2005 05:46 am, marc wrote: > > After applying the testing update to KDE 3.4, a large number of my > > settings have been trounced. Most I've been able to recover, but I > > cannot find the icon zooming feature when hovering over icons in the > > taskbar (panel/kicker). Instead it has been ousted by a truly horrible > > enormous "tooltip" that tautologically replicates the original icon. > > Ugh! > > > > Please let me know if you have any idea where its been hidden. Thanks. > > Icon zooming has been removed from KDE. A quote from the blog of Aaron Seigo, > the current kicker coder: "now, i'd really like to simply `rm -rf` the > transparency support in kicker 3.5 and tell people to deal with it until > there is proper support in X and Qt for these things. really, i would. but my > survival instincts tell me that i'd prefer to live a few more years rather > than be lynched by the hordes of users who just can't live without such > important things as a kicker that paints the same background as the desktop. > this from the guy who removed icon zooming." > > So now we get the huge tooltip. *shrug*
I found the thread where he "discusses" the removal. Truly scary stuff. Is there a workable alternative to Kicker? Primarily, I feel uncomfortable running this guy's code, but, in addition, clearly, he will make further unilateral decisions in the future, and I'd rather move away before he causes further disruption. -- Best, Marc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]