webbrowser speed

2012-10-29 Thread Marco Martin
hi all, just as an experiment last days i've been playing with the web browser to see if some speed issues and interaction bugs can be fixed by changing how the rendering goes on. (basically by letting webkit doing the scrolling instead of having a giant element with the whole page painted in

Re: Talking to users (Re: Big picture design one release cycle ahead?)

2012-10-29 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
On Monday, October 29, 2012 11:33:38 Björn Balazs wrote: Now my question: If we do so, we would need to talk to people using a certain configuration / version of the software to get the right feedback (and people will not be able to tell us the correct version number of their software). This

Files: this week to enumerate issues

2012-10-29 Thread Aaron J. Seigo
Hello :) Starting today, we need to enumerate all issues we can find in Files that need to be addressed. You can find the wiki page here: http://community.kde.org/Plasma/Active/PA4/Files All items will be scheduled at the end of the week. Solutions are only suggestions and to allow

Six (out of ten) best features of Windows 8 which we had long before it even came out

2012-10-29 Thread Thomas Pfeiffer
There are many ways to see that you're going in the right direction. One of them is reading an article titled The 10 Best Features in Windows 8 and realizing that your product had six of them for more than a year now: http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/10/the-10-best-features-in-windows-8/ -

kwin vs kwinactive

2012-10-29 Thread Marco Martin
hi all, i seen that when kwin is built as kwinactive executable it takes its config from kwinactiverc, but the rules are still taken from kwinrulesrc, shouldn't it be kwinactiverulesrc as well? (to have different sets, ie one would want the fullscreen prevention only on kwinactive) also