Re: Why does my window fractionate?

2009-05-09 Thread Timothy Murphy
dexter wrote: I wish someone would convey to Fedora developers in general, and KDE developers in particular, the merits of simplicity. Every option added to an application reduces its usability. Every option added increases functionality you should look to gnome if having a choice makes

Re: Why does my window fractionate?

2009-05-09 Thread Kevin Kofler
Timothy Murphy wrote: In my view, adding an option that will only be used by 0.001% of users means that 99.99% of users have to read something that is of no use to them. Then you would indeed probably be better off with GNOME rather than KDE. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-list mailing list

RE: Why does my window fractionate?

2009-05-08 Thread Cannon, Andrew C
-Original Message- From: fedora-list-boun...@redhat.com [mailto:fedora-list-boun...@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Timothy Murphy Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 10:20 AM To: fedora-list@redhat.com Subject: Why does my window fractionate? I'm running Fedora-10 with KDE. Every now and then my

Re: Why does my window fractionate?

2009-05-08 Thread Sharpe, Sam J
Timothy Murphy wrote: I'm running Fedora-10 with KDE. Every now and then my window dissolves into several small windows, each corresponding to one of my desktops. I know this happens when I move the mouse over something, but I haven't been able to work out what that something is. It is not a

RE: Why does my window fractionate?

2009-05-08 Thread Timothy Murphy
Cannon, Andrew C wrote: I'm running Fedora-10 with KDE. Every now and then my window dissolves into several small windows, each corresponding to one of my desktops. I know this happens when I move the mouse over something, but I haven't been able to work out what that something is. It

Re: Why does my window fractionate?

2009-05-08 Thread Timothy Murphy
Sharpe, Sam J wrote: I'm running Fedora-10 with KDE. Every now and then my window dissolves into several small windows, each corresponding to one of my desktops. I know this happens when I move the mouse over something, but I haven't been able to work out what that something is. It is

Re: Why does my window fractionate?

2009-05-08 Thread dexter
2009/5/8 Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net: Sharpe, Sam J wrote: I'm running Fedora-10 with KDE. Every now and then my window dissolves into several small windows, each corresponding to one of my desktops. I know this happens when I move the mouse over something, but I haven't been able

Re: Why does my window fractionate?

2009-05-08 Thread dexter
2009/5/8 Timothy Murphy gayle...@eircom.net: Am I alone in finding the whole KDE setup ludicrously complicated? In my view it is a mistake to offer people billions of options which would take hours to sift through. Yes you are, In my opinion kde4 is alot less configurable But now 18 months

Re: Why does my window fractionate?

2009-05-08 Thread Timothy Murphy
dexter wrote: I'm running Fedora-10 with KDE. Every now and then my window dissolves into several small windows, each corresponding to one of my desktops. I know this happens when I move the mouse over something, but I haven't been able to work out what that something is. I think you are

Re: Why does my window fractionate?

2009-05-08 Thread David
On 5/8/2009 11:53 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: dexter wrote: I'm running Fedora-10 with KDE. Every now and then my window dissolves into several small windows, each corresponding to one of my desktops. I know this happens when I move the mouse over something, but I haven't been able to work

RE: Why does my window fractionate?

2009-05-08 Thread Paul
If you are using KDE, there are a number of configurations that you can have for this 'all windows' display, including a cube, a grid, a spinning ring and (I've been told) a simulated hypercube. What you need to find is what you are doing that triggers this, which should be somewhere in the

RE: Why does my window fractionate?

2009-05-08 Thread Kevin Kofler
Timothy Murphy wrote: I see in f=Applications=System=System Settings=Desktop there is a checkbox Enable desktop effects ticked (not by me). That's not normal, desktop effects are disabled by default in Fedora (by our kde-settings), so I don't see why the box would get magically checked for you.

Re: Why does my window fractionate?

2009-05-08 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 09 May 2009 04:17:04 +0200 Kevin Kofler wrote: desktop effects are disabled by default in Fedora Really? I certainly got the impression they were enabled by default starting somewhere around fedora 9 or 10. At least that is when it started taking about 4 hours to render the initial

Re: Why does my window fractionate?

2009-05-08 Thread Kevin Kofler
Tom Horsley wrote: Really? I certainly got the impression they were enabled by default starting somewhere around fedora 9 or 10. At least that is when it started taking about 4 hours to render the initial desktop when you start a remote KDE session under a freenx sever (not something I

Re: Why does my window fractionate?

2009-05-08 Thread Tom Horsley
On Sat, 09 May 2009 04:48:17 +0200 Kevin Kofler wrote: They're disabled by default in KDE 4.0 and 4.1, and for KDE 4.2, we added a setting to kde-settings to ensure they stay disabled. This seems to work for everyone except you. Well, I just created a brand new user from scratch and logged in