Re: [opensuse] Re: [opensuse-factory] what you can do with KDE3 that you can't do with KDE4.

On Sun, 08 Apr 2012 19:33:07 +0530, James Knott <james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

C wrote:
On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 14:24, James Knott<james.knott@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
One thing I've noticed is that KDE4 simply doesn't work as well as KDE3,
even ignoring the differences in features. For example, often when I click
on something to open it, I have to hunt to see where it is, rather than it
opening on top of everything else. I also find that when something opens,
it often does not have focus for the keyboard, so that if, for example, I
press Alt-F2 to run something, I find that even though the box opens, I wind
up typing into another app.

In this aspect alone, KDE4 has a long way to go to catch up to KDE3, even
before considering the things that are no longer possible in KDE4.
Have you tweaked a setting somewhere? i haven't encountered this
issue you present as an example of a problem with KDE4 at all.. and I
just tested it following your example and it behaves as you are
expecting it to not how you are describing it (ie I open an app using
Alt+F2 and focus is immediately shifted to the new app once it's
open).

C.

It's not consistent. That's why I said "often". There is a setting in Personal Settings for Window Behaviour. At someone's advice here, I changed it to "Focus follows mouse", but it didn't do much.


that was me, mentioning "focus follows mouse," but i neither use nor recommend it; i find it rather confusing.

i expect the focus to remain ideally where i want or expect it, but if that's not the case for some reason, at least where it's at -- not follow the mouse all over the place. i often do things like hovering over taskbar icons or the clock, and having the focus following all that would drive me mad.

i rather thought you might have enabled it & forgot about it, and therefore were experiencing these issues.

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