Intrepid Ibex with KDE 4: a step backwards?

[pwabrahams]

Window turns gray and freezes

Yet another new "feature" kicked me in the rear. I mistyped (or misclicked) something -- I don't know what -- and the window I was working in turned gray and froze. Eventually I managed to reactivate it, but I'm not sure how I did that either.

What probably happened?

[pwabrahams]

Kickoff doesn't use flyouts -- why not?

Under the old-style KDE3 K menu, you could move the cursor to a category and the items in that category would fly out to the right. That made it easy to scan the categories for a particular item. Under Kickoff you have to click on a category to see what's in it.

I mentioned this earlier, but what I didn't realize at the time is that KDE3 got it right. What possible purpose could be served by Kickoff's changed behavior?

[pwabrahams]

That small white box?

What is that small white box that keeps popping up on the screen all about? It has three lines near the top and a small white screen under that. Clicking on it does nothing that I can see. I finally discovered that I could make it go away by right-clicking on it and choosing "close", at least.

[noelvh]

Re: Kickoff doesn't use flyouts -- why not?

Under the old-style KDE3 K menu, you could move the cursor to a category and the items in that category would fly out to the right. That made it easy to scan the categories for a particular item. Under Kickoff you have to click on a category to see what's in it.

I mentioned this earlier, but what I didn't realize at the time is that KDE3 got it right. What possible purpose could be served by Kickoff's changed behavior?

In the repos in a add on called "Lancelot" This can be added to the panel and replace the k menu. Much better than the K menu.

Noel Vh

[pwabrahams]

Re: Kickoff doesn't use flyouts -- why not?

In the repos in a add on called "Lancelot" This can be added to the panel and replace the k menu. Much better than the K menu.

I took your suggestion and brought in Lancelot. It doesn't have flyouts either as far as I can tell. Since the old-style KDE menu has them, I doubt if there's any real implementation problem.