Coming from a Mac-centric background, I'm often quite frustrated by the extent which KDE (as well as Gnome) takes after Windows. Windows does so many things wrong when it comes to user interface design -- yes, some things merely different, but others just nothing short of wrong -- and I don't understand why someone wanting to make a quality product would choose to model it after Windows.
Being able to move the menu bar to the top of the screen is a step in the right direction. But one other thing that continues to vex me is the differences in text editing. I'm hoping it's possible to somehow configure KDE to use more Mac-like text editing. Specifically...
-Double-clicking a word should select only the word, not the word and the space after it.
-Triple-clicking a word selects the whole line as is proper, but quadruple-clicking should select the whole paragraph, not the last word in the line. (What the heck?)
-Clicking in the empty space after the end of a document should place the cursor at the end of the last line of the document, not in the middle of the last line above where was clicked.
-Shift-typing characters while Caps Lock is on should not type lower-case characters. I see the logic in this, but for us Mac users, it's wrong.
-When the cursor is at the beginning of the last line in a document, pressing Shift-Down Arrow should select that last line, just as it does when the cursor is at the beginning of any other line.
-Right-clicking on words marked as incorrectly spelled should offer a list of correction suggestions in the resulting contextual menu.
-And while I'm at it, how do I type a proper ellipsis (Option-; on the Mac), em-dash (Shift-Option-Dash), enyay (Option-N, then N), or other special characters? Please don't tell me KDE has picked up Windows' Alt+Random Number nonsense.
If anyone knows how KDE can be tweaked to behave more like the Mac in the above ways, please let me know. Thanks in advance.
Monday, July 15th 2024, 11:44am
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