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Quoted Originally posted by Fry-kun Fair enough, though I don't agree that "show desktop" is synonymous with "minimize all windows". To me, "show desktop" does exactly what it says, without any side-effects. I agree that there's no official standard that dictates how the show desktop applet should behave which is why I don't refer to this as being a right or wrong issue. I do, however, think that there is a defacto standard--basically being "everyone else is doing it"--that gives rise to the ex...

Quoted Originally posted by Fry-kun I think this follows the least astonishment path for users familiar with ms windows - it displays the same behavior. I'm not exactly sure what you mean by that, but it should be made clear that this is not a "Windows Way" versus the "Linux Way" issue. It's a "KDE's Way" being wildly different than "Every Other DE's Way." In every DE (that I know of) except KDE, the "show desktop" button minimizes the windows. KDE does not. Instead it seems to "hide" the windo...

A good one to try is Kitty. It's a video capable podcast client for KDE. Probably the best client available on Linux is Democracy TV, it's GTK based but pretty full featured.

Rinse, have you managed to duplicate this behavior yet? If so, do you know if there is a way to change it?

From what I can tell, it's not a bug. I think it's actually behaving the way it was intended to but I, and apparently xanaxa also, would rather it behave differently. Here's how you would reproduce what we're talking about. Add the "Show Desktop" applet to your panel. Now open a few windows so that your desktop is nice and cluttered. At this point if you click the Desktop Access button that you added earlier, you'll see all of the windows minimized and your desktop will now be visible without th...

This one really bugs me too and I'd love to see if anyone here knows if there's a way to fix it.

Agreed. Those crosshatches are unnecessary and annoying. Why we need visible characters to represent the absence of visible characters I'll never understand. It's just clutter and users need to be able to turn it off.