Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (147 mails)

[Bob S <911@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 28 February 2008 11:12:05 am Dirk Mueller wrote:
> On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Bob S wrote:
> > Ex: I cannot create more than the two virtual desktops.
>
> right click on the pager, "Configure Desktops", change number of desktops
OK Dirk,

Thanks for replying and your interest
.
The only place I can bring up "Configure Desktops" is by right clicking on the 
screen and all that does is bring up "Configure Desktop -Plasma Workspace" 
and all you can do there is change the wallpaper, positioning, color, and 
icon arrangement. Nothing about quantity of desktops.

Then I go into the menu > system settings > Look and Feel > Appearance or 
Desktop etc and there are all kinds of stuff to change but nothing about 
quantity of desktops or the ability to have different wallpaper on the two 
that are there already. (I work with 4 desktops and they look different so I 
can recognize them easily)


> > other being changed. Cannot hide the taskbar (dashboard??)
>
> you mean the panel (the one that contains the open windows and the start
> menu)?

Yes. Actually I think it is called the system tray or the task bar. KDE4 calls 
it a dashboard when you go up and click on that "thingy" in the top right 
corner.
> > Cannot add apps
> > to the "dashboard".
>
> which apps would you like to add?

Used to be able to add apps right there, move apps around, hide the bar, etc. 
etc.  I like Konsole, Kwrite, Knotes,Amarok, Kopete, Accessability, Kmouth. I 
am visually impaired and need big fonts.
> > What is that "thingy" up in the right hand corner that
> > zooms in and out and hides the dashboard?
>
> it is a debug thing. I don't know why it is still enabled, it serves no
> useful purpose (as far as I know).

Wellllll. you can add widgets and zoom out which makes the screen about a 
quarter of it's size and puts it up in the upper  left hand quarter. Not sure 
what the purpose of that is.

Then again you can go down into the system tray/task bar and click on a little 
blue rectangular icon which then turns the screen dark and displays whatever 
is on the screen in a subdued ghost like view. You cannot do anything in this 
view. You must go up to the "thingy" in the right hand corner and click on 
the "hide dashboard" to get your screen back.
> > Lots of stuff let out of Desktop
> > configuration and othe little niggling things that make kde3.5 so
> > pleasant and easy to use.
>
> be more specific please. what in particular are you looking for?
Well for instance. The Konsole is white fonts on black. No way to change it to 
black on white. The fonts are small and if you want to change them you must 
actually go down and press Ctl++. The settings don't stick and the next time 
you have to do it again.

In Dolphin, (why is it separated from Konquereor) if I set icon sizes it is 
not global. In other words, aafter having set icons and fonts in my home 
folder, if I change the tree to root for example the icons are small again. 
And you cannot navigate up or down the tree. Only backward and forward. In 
Konqueror you can navigate up and down but you still have the mix of small 
and large icons depending on where you are and what you set.

I have a SUSE.desktop icon on the desktop which when I click on it gives me an 
error message which I cannot recall at this moment.

Maybe it is just my system. But I installed it with the "one click install" 
and have kept it up with Yast on the KDE4 Stable repositories. Who knows? 

> Thanks,
> Dirk

No, thank you !!

Bob S
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