On Fri, 2009-08-07 at 13:30 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Thursday 06 August 2009 22:17:35 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > I wanted to tune the device actions to make Dolphin the first choice > > In what? > > > (I've BZ'ed this in the past, see > > https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=164053 and many dupes), but can't > > figure it out. > > That bug report is the most incredible hotchpot I've ever seen. Umpteen > things, all muddled together. I agree. My original report is https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=192671, to which you also contributed Anne. However someone marked my report as a dup of the larger one, which is why I quoted the latter. Sorry for the confusion. > > Since 4.3 seems to carry on the tradition of not > > documenting anything useful*, can anyone enlighten me? > > > Thank you. So we'll all stop working on it until you join in and help us. No need to overreact. I'll admit to a certain snittiness in my remarks, but it's not like this is the first time anyone has ever said anything about KDE documentation. I've frequently complained about it in the past and was disappointed to find that 4.3 still has holes. In fact it even has missing documentation files (click on the Help button in a plasma applet and get "The file or folder help:/plasma-desktop/index.html does not exist".) This was also the case with earlier versions of KDE and I also commented on it at the time. The whole point I'm trying to make is that most of the easy stuff is documented, but a lot of the harder stuff isn't. Clearly if I was in a position to write docs for the hard stuff I wouldn't need to ask the question in my post. (Just to forestall anyone getting the wrong idea: the Gnome docs aren't any better and I've also complained about them). > > > > * The settings dialogue is easy to understand, but the legal values for > > the various fields are not documented and should be. Better still, the > > dialogue should present them as a choice menu, since it already knows to > > complain when they aren't legal. This is basic usability. > > Basic reporting skills suggest that you should tell us which settings dialogue > this is. To quote myself: "I wanted to tune the device actions to make Dolphin the first choice". Clearly I mean the settings for device actions. I can only see System Settings->Advanced->Device Actions. Is there another one I should know about? > Two comments I'd make, based on reading that bug report. > > I don't want everything mounted automatically. *I* am in charge of my > computers and want to stay so. On a practical level, too, every time I put a > disk in to use with k3b I have to umount it? No thanks. I agree with this. I generally detest automounters. They don't always do what you want. > As an experiment, a few weeks back I stuck in a USB pen-drive without mounting > it, then opened Gwenview. I was able to browse immediately - IOW It was > mounted from Gwenview, not from the notifier or from Dolphin. How many other > applications can do this I have no idea - I haven't tested. That also works with Dolphin and is a valid alternative. However it doesn't really answer the question. More to the point, a user who sees the notification pop-up and clicks on the icon will still have to click twice more to get to the file browser, which I conjecture to be by far the most common case. That's just bad design. poc
