MX-19.2 KDE RC 1 Feedback Thread

[kc1di]

I would agree that most users seem to prefer double click.

Can you show your source for this assumption?
Single click rules, ok!

Single click :)

[asqwerth]

Single click only in KDE Plasma, regardless of distro. I got used to it.

Double click for all other desktop environments.

[tony37]

The number one complaint about MX Xfce in comments on Distrowatch is the default single click in Thunar (it follows the Debian default but MX still gets the blame).
I would agree that most users seem to prefer double click. I know that it is the first thing I change.

In an ideal world, choosing between single-click and double-click would be one of the questions asked during the install process. (People have to wait anyway so why not ask some extra useful questions)
But I suppose that would take a lot of programming to implement.

[kangburra]

The number one complaint about MX Xfce in comments on Distrowatch is the default single click in Thunar (it follows the Debian default but MX still gets the blame).
I would agree that most users seem to prefer double click. I know that it is the first thing I change.

In an ideal world, choosing between single-click and double-click would be one of the questions asked during the install process. (People have to wait anyway so why not ask some extra useful questions)
But I suppose that would take a lot of programming to implement.

I haven't used KDE since 3.5 (or something like that) and it's not easy to find all the settings again. It is good to learn where things are though, looking for the lock from suspend I found a GUI option to edit the grub config. There is documentation which is great.

[tony37]

I have a few suggestions to put in 'Popular Applications':
- in Desktop Environments: the xfce-desktop of course
- in Graphics: Krita and for people wanting something simple there's Kolourpaint
- in Utilities: Catfish (which isn't installed by default as on xfce, but version 1.4.10 should be avoided as mentioned in the beta2 thread) and Ksystemlog, which has one bug I know of: it searches for the .xsession-errors file at ~/.xsession-errors, but ~ is /root here, so this should be /home/username/.xsession-errors
- and maybe Krusader in File Managers

[sunrat]

I haven't used KDE since 3.5 (or something like that) and it's not easy to find all the settings again. It is good to learn where things are though, looking for the lock from suspend I found a GUI option to edit the grub config. There is documentation which is great.

KDE System Settings has a decent search function.

[Gerson]

Seen in the forum in Spanish: (viewtopic.php?f=12&t=59795)

To see the preview (thumbnails) of opendocument documents in MX linux KDE

The solution is to install

kde-odf-thumbnail_1.0.0-4.2_amd64.deb

and then execute the next command:

$ sudo mv /usr/lib64/qt5/plugins/opendocumentthumbnail.so /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/qt5/plugins/

After that enter the Dolphin settings and enable the preview of ODF files.

[tony37]

@ Gerson: It works. As it's a really small package, maybe an idea to install it by default (preferably at once to the right directory).
In later versions .odt thumbnails work automatically because of an update to kio-extras.

[kangburra]

I haven't used KDE since 3.5 (or something like that) and it's not easy to find all the settings again. It is good to learn where things are though, looking for the lock from suspend I found a GUI option to edit the grub config. There is documentation which is great.

KDE System Settings has a decent search function.

Possibly but if you type grub there are no results, so you have to know what they have called it.

[chrispop99]

Possibly but if you type grub there are no results, so you have to know what they have called it.

Other boot loaders are available...

Chris