Re: [Hampshire] First impressions of Fedora 10

>> KDE4... well I like the style, but the menus, window decoration etc. are
>> not as good as KDE3 in Fedora 8, lots of wasted space around icons etc.
>> I
>> will have to tweak that when I do a real install. I also hate the new
>> start menu where the menu moves around inside a box, I don't find it
>> very
>> intuitive. That combined with the "single click" behavior in the file
>> browser made life hard to start with.
>
>
> That was how KDE$ was meant to be .. revolutionise the desktop . and icons
> don't exist .. if you want to keep them you are just creating plasmoids.
> Yes menu is something which hard to get used to :(
> Single click behavious was there from long time .. its nothing new from
> KDE4

The problem is the mix of single and double click in items that "appear"
from the users point of view to be the same thing ;). So for example when
I open the KDE control panel I have to double click on the sections to
enter them. Where as in the file browser it is single click to enter a
directory... but double click on the left hand pane to open a new drive
area. It is very inconsistent and confusing.

What I mean with icons was inside things like the file browser, there is
too much white space around the icons for a folder etc. And there is too
much white space on the window bars. However these problems were solved by
changing theme to Plastique and customising the spacing :) (At least I can
do that!)

However there are still things I cannot find, like how to I set up a
global launch shortcut in KDE4 (e.g. to make the media keys on my laptop
keyboard work to launch email, web etc.). And where do I configure power
management behavior? it doesn't seem to be in the control panel app.