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(This is directed to Matthias Ettrich... I don't want to post my email on QtDevelop, I tried a harmless fake "not@provided", didn't work)

Here am I, discussing the Monster with Doktor Frankenstein himself. Ooh, the irony of it all... (a little dramatic moment, drums fading to background, please)

Maybe I didn't quite understand your real intentions, so pardon me in advance if so.

> Here?s how it should be (and surprisingly this is also how Windows Vista works): Having images in folder results in little button that says ?View slideshow?. You click it, you get a full screen viewer that shows your images. Simply, intuitive, what you want, what you expect, and no window management action required.

Apart from the problem you described (i.e., having to toggle the full-screen option), that's exactly what I get in Konqueror 3.2.3. I have changed (in Konqueror's Configuration, File Associations) "image" to use an external viewer (the default:Kuickshow). Now: just enter a folder and click on the first pic, it gets shown at full-screen. Move the mousewheel and voilà, you easily browse all that directory's pics (no window management here). Is that what you wanted? (Though I recognize there's no indication of this use, it's pretty easy to discover this the first time you accidentaly moves the wheel -- BTW, if you're browsing the Internet this will present all the pictures in cache... pretty nifty, too, I might say).

I thought you knew about this. I must be misunderstanding the whole thing... 8-/

Maybe you're referring to "default configurations" and how the user should get all this without having to change any options... I would agree with your point, if so.

> And while being at it, single click for opening documents is wrong. Initially I thought it was a good idea, too, but after having tried to use it for a while, I changed my mind. Unless I?m the only one who constantly starts applications by accident when I want to move files around, or delete them.

I gave a reasonable amount of consideration to this recently. To avoid opening things by chance, it's enough to select things not by clicking, but by "drawing a square around selections" -- much like one does "square selection" in GIMP. Works like a charm, and it's a small price to have single-click selection (which is a real saver from RSI). Alas, one can use Ctrl-Click to select, which is even easier but of less intuitive usage. But, then, all this is a matter of taste, I guess... people can get fond of double-clicking, I suppose.

Again, I suppose you're talking about first-day users... but then, doesn't KDE ships with the doubleclick setting on?

Lee Nooks.