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From: Folderol on 31 Oct 2009 07:35 On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:06:47 +0000 Bruce Stephens <bruce+usenet(a)cenderis.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Folderol <folderol(a)ukfsn.org> writes: > > > Or does anyone else think that many of the latest versions of common > > applications are much harder to use than before? > > kwrite > > krename > > k3b > > Are the first few that spring to mind :( > > Emacs 23 is better than its predecessors, for what it's worth. There is always one! :) -- Will J G
From: Folderol on 31 Oct 2009 07:44 On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:02:01 +0000 "Simon J. Rowe" <srowe(a)mose.org.uk> wrote: > Folderol wrote: > > > Or does anyone else think that many of the latest versions of common > > applications are much harder to use than before? > > kwrite > > krename > > k3b > > Are the first few that spring to mind :( > > No, amarok 2 is completely useless and almost unusable compared with 1.4. I > can't say I've had any problems with k3b though. > > Simon The latest version of k3b doesn't seem to have the bottom layout of quick entries for CD & DVD image files, and hunting for these through the menus is less than intuitive (to put it mildly). Incidentally I tried the new burner on the latest ubunto release and gave up in the end - for the same reason. I'm not a KDE user as such, but those apps have always been the best for me. kwrite now uses a small dialogue box at the bottom of the page for things like 'find' entries, so you seem to keep having to scan up and down. It also means you have to have the whole page visible, not just the bit you're working on. krename now has a multi-tabbed system which is far less intuitive for quick 'n dirty bulk renaming. -- Will J G
From: Chris Whelan on 31 Oct 2009 08:05 On Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:44:41 +0000, Folderol wrote: [...] > The latest version of k3b doesn't seem to have the bottom layout of > quick entries for CD & DVD image files, and hunting for these through > the menus is less than intuitive (to put it mildly). As with earlier versions of K3b, you just right-click on the lower area and select what you want to appear from an Add Button menu. All that has changed is the default selection. Now the stability of KDE4 is more realistically stable I'm trying to get to like it. I'm still finding some things I don't like, and the changes to Amarok have ruined it! Chris -- Remove prejudice to reply.
From: Nix on 31 Oct 2009 11:54 On 31 Oct 2009, Bruce Stephens outgrape: > Folderol <folderol(a)ukfsn.org> writes: > >> Or does anyone else think that many of the latest versions of common >> applications are much harder to use than before? >> kwrite >> krename >> k3b >> Are the first few that spring to mind :( > > Emacs 23 is better than its predecessors, for what it's worth. Yeah, the butterfly is really useful. (Yes, really.)
From: alexd on 1 Nov 2009 05:02
Meanwhile, at the uk.comp.os.linux Job Justification Hearings, Folderol chose the tried and tested strategy of: > kwrite now uses a small dialogue box at the bottom of the page for > things like 'find' entries, so you seem to keep having to scan up and > down. Have to disagree with you there - I can't stand popup windows! > It also means you have to have the whole page visible, not just the bit you're > working on. Not sure what you mean there. Just tested it here and it searches fine regardless of how much of the page is visible. -- <http://ale.cx/> (AIM:troffasky) (UnSoEsNpEaTm(a)ale.cx) 09:57:15 up 14 days, 7:06, 4 users, load average: 0.44, 0.27, 0.17 "Stupid is a condition. Ignorance is a choice" -- Wiley Miller |