On Saturday 20 December 2008 10:16:31 Will Stephenson wrote:
On Saturday 20 December 2008 10:54:00 Bob Williams wrote:
On Saturday 20 December 2008 08:59:34 Will Stephenson wrote:
In the Desktop Settings dialog, change the Desktop Activity Type to "Folder View". Click Apply.
Then you get the traditional icons-as-desktop approach.
(We described this and translated it into 17 languages and linked it from /usr/bin/SUSEgreeter as "Show Introduction to KDE4" - but you can lead a horse to water etc etc ;))
Will
That just made plasma crash. I've logged in to bugs.kde.org but can't see where I submit my report.
Uhoh. But it's an openSUSE feature, so please report it at bugzilla.novell.com, openSUSE 11.1, KDE4 Workspace.
It will save a couple of round-trips if you install at least the kdelibs and kdebase4-workspace debuginfo packages as detailed at http://en.opensuse.org/Bugs:KDE
Will
OK. I've installed the debuginfo packages, as you suggest. I tried to provoke the plasma crash again, so that more informative logs would be generated, but this time it didn't complain. It didn't do what was requested, either. The desktop initially cleared to a plain blue background with an empty Desktop folder. The desktop icons then appeared as a neat row of widgety things at top left, and the desktop turned black at the same time. One by one the icons/widgets disappeared, then the original KDE4 desktop reappeared, with the original Desktop Folder, which repopulated itself with the icons from /home/<user>/Desktop. Back to square one :( Could this behaviour have anything to do with the fact that I've been running KDE3.5 alongside KDE4, trying them both in different sessions? IOW I have both a ~/.kde and a ~/.kde4 folder. When my new machine arrives, I shall do a clean install of 11.1 & KDE4.1. I suspect it would be a good idea to remove ~/.kde before remounting /home. Bob -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.0, Kernel 2.6.25.18-0.2-default, KDE 3.5.10 Intel Celeron 2.53GHz, 2GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 7600GS -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org