Dotan Cohen wrote:

2009/9/5 Paul Hands :

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Hi all,

Sorry if I'm being stupid, but I've just loaded the latest KDE, and it looks great on my T60p Thinkpad - all the compositing and eye candy works beautifully.

However, I cannot find a way to add icons to the Kicker panel. The icon might be to launch an application like Firefox or Thunderbird. Also, I cannot move icons already on the panel. I can delete them, but that's it. There's no "add application icon" context menu pick as described in the help documents. I've used KDE 3 for years, and all this stuff is second nature, but maybe KDE4 has changed the mechanism and I can't find it. Trying to drag icons to move them also doesn't work. I've tried the lock/unlock widgets menu pick, but it makes no difference.

Paul, I find the current panel configuration to be very unintuitive and I need users to prove it! Please tell me exactly what you tried (what did not work) so that I can report it as being the more intuitive behaviour (which will hopefully make it into a future KDE release). Thanks!

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Any ideas?

Thanks,

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OK. No problem, and thanks for replying so quickly! I'm a long term (Since SuSE 5.1!) KDE user, so have got very used to the KDE3 mechanisms. I removed my~/.kde4 directory before running kde4.3.1, to give it a clean start. On logging in, I get the default setup, with the Kicker panel at screen bottom. I want to add firefox, thunderbird and Konsole buttons at the bottom left, where the ""show the plasma dashboard", dolphin, Konqueror and recent devices apps are. KDE help says that I should be able to right click on a space in the panel and use the "add application icon" menu pick. No such menu item is present. Just to be sure, I tried this on a newly created empty panel at the top of the screen, and no such menu item exists there either. So, I can't add new application launch icons. The context menu gives : add panel, add widgets, lock widgets, panel settings and remove this panel options,but not add application icon as described in the help. I can add widgets, no problem, from the selection provided by the add widgets menu pick. However, those widgets always go the far right of the panel, and I cannot move them to a different position. Drag move doesn't do anything, and there is no context menu with a move option. I tried adding a widget - the application launcher so I could perhaps edit it. It's not editable. Does that make sense? Regards, Paul -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org

Martin Schlander wrote:

Lørdag den 5. september 2009 18:14:30 skrev Paul Hands:

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However, I cannot find a way to add icons to the Kicker panel. The icon might be to launch an application like Firefox or Thunderbird. Also, I cannot move icons already on the panel. I can delete them, but that's it. There's no "add application icon" context menu pick as described in the help documents. I've used KDE 3 for years, and all this stuff is second nature, but maybe KDE4 has changed the mechanism and I can't find it. Trying to drag icons to move them also doesn't work. I've tried the lock/unlock widgets menu pick, but it makes no difference.

There's no kicker in kde4, just a plasma panel.

To add app shortcuts either drag from the menu or right click a menu entry -> add to panel. Widgets must be unlocked first.

To move widgets in the panel, unlock widgets -> click on the cashew in the right side of the panel to open the panel configuration dialog.

Hi Martin, and thanks for replying :-) The approach of dragging from the "K" menu works, but limits you to stuff which is already in that menu. In my case, I want to add a completely new application from an arbitrary location, like /opt/..... I can't do that like I could in KDE 3. The move thing doesn't work at all - I've tried it several times and no luck. The panel shows as unlocked (the menu says "lock widgets), but dragging doesn't work. Just to be sure, I tried it with the menu saying "unlock widgets" but no change. What am I doing wrong? P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org