I had commented on the original blog archive, and I'll continue discussion here.
Well, maybe I'm an exception, but I don't follow the "netbook users run a single application at a time". For instance, many times I have firefox, dolphin, konsole, amarok, gimp (yes, gimp, with a wacom tablet attached) running at the same time in a 10.2" netbook, with 1024x600 resolution and 2GB RAM. And it works well with Kubuntu Lucid beta. Here is an explanation for the points i've stated in that comment: * I'd rather have a task manager which shows only icons for background apps and the title and maximize / restore buttons for the foreground app replacing the current activity switcher, which takes more than half of the available screen width. And I agree with Markus that the clock should be by default in the extreme right side. It's where users of all platforms expect to see a clock and a system tray. Also, in the current form, depending on the window title length, the clock position changes, and keeps "jumping" when switching applications. * About the single / double click: Search and Launch is there basically replacing the menu. It doesn't makes sense to make it honor the single / double click settings, which is supposed to be to navigate in files. In files, 1 click selects, 2 clicks open. In the SAL, 1 click does nothing. Having it honoring the setting is just like making Kickoff requiring double clicks to navigate in menus. This is the same complaint I have with system settings: if I choose double clicks to navigate in files, the system settings also requires double clicks. * About the "texts" in SAL: if someone which has never seen it is shown just a screenshot, like the first one presented in the article (http://kamikazow.wordpress.com/2010/04/09/plasma-netbook-mockup), he sees some icons on top, a search box, some other icons and widgets at the bottom. There is no obvious statement that: "these are the favorites", "here are the applications", and so on. On Kickoff, there's the "Favorites" and "Applications" tab. The ubuntu netbook remix has the sections on the left side. Having such an indication would be more intuitive. Perhaps, I'm thinking that having an intermediate solution, with just borderless maximized windows (which currently can be set via config file), that hacked task manager and a default kickoff menu would be perfect for netbooks... -- Luis Fernando Planella Gonzalez _______________________________________________ Plasma-devel mailing list Plasma-devel@kde.org https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/plasma-devel