
move mouse to default button
Various KDE 1.-4. Improvements
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I would like that when I open a dialog window (like Help->About ) the mouse cursor to jump to the default button. A control center option is needed to set this behavior on/off.
Please HELP me convince developers that this option is good by VOTING GOOD here and at the download link!
+(positive facts)
+fast response to dialog windows(especially those with Yes/No or Continue/Cancel or those with only the OK button)
+less effort in moving the mouse
+moving the mouse to the default button will make easier to click even the non-default buttons(because all buttons are close together)
-(why not implement this)
-takes the mouse control out of the user for a nanosec(how many clicks can u make in a nano secs ?! )
15 years ago
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masterdany88
8 years ago
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athleston
15 years ago
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bennevis
15 years ago
Back in my Windows days I used a logitec driver with this feature and it was so annoying! It produced false (as in unwanted) clicks all the time, because it makes you click on stuff my accident.
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DIHLOFOS
15 years ago
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DIHLOFOS
15 years ago
KDE is about features and customizability. Just give me this feature and leave it to me whether I'm going to use it or not. If you wish to get a preconfigured and hard to customize desktop get yourself a Gnome.
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jpetso
15 years ago
KDE is configurable because
1. no one thought of keeping it simple, or (in other cases)
2. the options are really necessary for a good user experience.
Every option that you're adding increases complexity, so you have to add options with care or you'll end up with software that you can't understand anymore because they're so complex. KDE is also about efficiency and a good workflow, so they are currently cleaning out unnecessary options.
It is a sign for good software if it rejects the proposals that don't bring a good usefullness vs. complexity ratio with them. As you can clearly see at the good/bad percentage, this one is such a feature, most people think similar as I do, and I love KDE for being consequent enough to not integrate every possible feature that you could think of.
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Superstoned
15 years ago
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gentoo IS about compiling, and KDE's strength (for many endusers) is manly its configurabillity.
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KDE is configurable because
1. no one thought of keeping it simple, or (in other cases)
2. the options are really necessary for a good user experience.
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KDE is also configurable because not everyone is the same (as the gnomes seem to think). i like to have it work my way, not the developers way, thank you.
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Every option that you're adding increases complexity, so you have to add options with care or you'll end up with software that you can't understand anymore because they're so complex. KDE is also about efficiency and a good workflow, so they are currently cleaning out unnecessary options.
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are you really talking about KDE here? first, it is utterly bullshit options clutter anything. they barely make software slower, and, if well laid out/ hidden behind an advanced button, they don't clutter an interface. that's why KDE is still very populair - it is VERY VERY rare a KDE developer removes a feature.
mostly because they are not the ppl who should decide something is 'unnecessary'. the users should decide that.
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It is a sign for good software if it rejects the proposals that don't bring a good usefullness vs. complexity ratio with them. As you can clearly see at the good/bad percentage, this one is such a feature, most people think similar as I do, and I love KDE for being consequent enough to not integrate every possible feature that you could think of.
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i agree proposals that make things harder to use shouldn't make it, and KDE does it very well in that regard - but i'm sure adding this option wouldn't clutter up anything and help the ppl that like it. i'd say add it (tough i won't use it).
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jpetso
15 years ago
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jpetso
15 years ago
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dionis
15 years ago
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zvonSully
15 years ago
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AlexeyK
15 years ago
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zvonSully
15 years ago
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Esaltato
15 years ago
The reason is the same the KDE girl is saying: I like to drive my mouse, I didn't take a klicense for nothing:)
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exworm
15 years ago
In the feature hell that has become KDE this is one feature we can afford not to have
And it is a perfect paradeigm of anti-usability
And no when a dialog pops up the default answer is not most likely the correct one
And trust me when I say this most novice users dont like this feature and almost every "power user" (I really hate that term) hates it
So please no
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zvonSully
15 years ago
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tiny
15 years ago
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DIHLOFOS
15 years ago
Nice one!
Just like CD insert message box appeared just in KDE 3.5. Way too late.
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