double clicking upper left of windows doesn't close them

[Jay]

Kubuntu 8.4 Hardy Heron beta KDE 4 AMD64
all updates/upgrades (as of April 18 2008)

double clicking upper left of windows doesn't close them, as it does on Windows, which KDE very very very strongly resembles
I poked around the configuration briefly, but it was WAY too flexible and scary
This isn't supposed to be for advanced users, right?

[Yuriy Kozlov (yuriy-kozlov)]

Thank you filing this bug. This feature was in KDE3 but doesn't seem to be in KDE4.

[Terence Simpson (tsimpson)]

Hmm, I don't get it. Why double click the window icon when you can single click the X ?

[Jay (jayk123)]

The upper left, not the upper right.
This is what it does on Windows. I use it all the time.
Surely I'm not the only Windows users who thinks KDE strives to be like Windows and is bothered where it misses?

I don't like the horizontally scrolling start menu in KDE4 either but obviously that was deliberate.
With it this way, I can't say where I came from and learn the difference between e.g. "system" and "settings" which seems strange...
Oh well.

 -Jay

> From: <email address hidden>
> To: <email address hidden>
> Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 22:36:41 +0000
> Subject: [Bug 219413] Re: double clicking upper left of windows doesn't close them
>
> Hmm, I don't get it. Why double click the window icon when you can
> single click the X ?
>
> --
> double clicking upper left of windows doesn't close them
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/219413
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> of the bug.
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> Status in KDE Base Components: Unknown
> Status in Source Package "kdebase-workspace" in Ubuntu: Confirmed
>
> Bug description:
> Kubuntu 8.4 Hardy Heron beta KDE 4 AMD64
> all updates/upgrades (as of April 18 2008)
>
> double clicking upper left of windows doesn't close them, as it does on Windows, which KDE very very very strongly resembles
> I poked around the configuration briefly, but it was WAY too flexible and scary
> This isn't supposed to be for advanced users, right?

[Terence Simpson (tsimpson)]

KDE does not strive to be like Windows, it just tries to be a good desktop environment.
And there are 2 menus available in KDE4, "Application Launcher" and "Application Launcher Menu", use the "Application Launcher Menu" if you don't like the default.

[Jay (jayk123)]

> KDE does not strive to be like Windows, it just tries to be a good desktop environment.
Those are approximately the same thing.
Ok, yes, if you can improve on Windows, all the better, but first you should be as good as Windows.
You are getting close in some ways..Windows isn't really the fastest moving target, you don't really have to do much more than NT4 did over 10 years ago, plus a few features from after it like PlugNPlay, built in DVD player, CD/DVD writer, photo management, modern web browsers, wireless, 1394, USB, friendly login, actually Windows 2000 from 9 years ago is a good target, or the slightly better XP from 7 seven years ago...

Based on your tip...I was using OpenSuse for a bit..and found how to switch the start menu style, thanks.
And then XUbuntu briefly, was disappointed (e.g. a) KDevelop didn't appear on start menu, and b) I couldn't figure out how to add it myself, I can run it ok, I don't depend on start menus really but for it to be so difficult to figure out how to edit the, disappointing), added KDE to it, got the wizard (Kandalf?) that Kubuntu had skipped, chose "Redmond" style/style and boy does it look nice and familiar, seriously. I'm not into eye candy but there is some amazingly positive subtle effects to looking so much like Windows..

 - Jay

> From: <email address hidden>> To: <email address hidden>> Date: Sun, 20 Apr 2008 12:53:54 +0000> Subject: [Bug 219413] Re: double clicking upper left of windows doesn't close them> > KDE does not strive to be like Windows, it just tries to be a good desktop environment.> And there are 2 menus available in KDE4, "Application Launcher" and "Application Launcher Menu", use the "Application Launcher Menu" if you don't like the default.> > -- > double clicking upper left of windows doesn't close them> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/219413> You received this bug notification because you are a direct subscriber> of the bug.> > Status in KDE Base Components: New> Status in Source Package "kdebase-workspace" in Ubuntu: Confirmed> > Bug description:> Kubuntu 8.4 Hardy Heron beta KDE 4 AMD64> all updates/upgrades (as of April 18 2008)> > double clicking upper left of windows doesn't close them, as it does on Windows, which KDE very very very strongly resembles> I poked around the configuration briefly, but it was WAY too flexible and scary> This isn't supposed to be for advanced users, right?

[Harald Sitter (apachelogger)]

This is simply not a feature of the oxygen window decoration, plastik for example would support this behavior.
Closing the bug as Won't Fix since we are most likely not going to implement this feature unless KDE implements this on a global scale for any kwin decoration or the oxygen team chooses to implement it for their decoration.

@Jay: this is neither ubuntuforums.org nor brainstorm.ubuntu.com, please keep comments related to the bug, thank you :)