Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (199 mails)

[Robert Graf-Waczenski <rgw@xxxxxxxxx>]

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-------- Original Message --------
Subject: 	Re: [opensuse-kde] Want my cashew back - desktop folder view 
problem?
Date:   Mon, 02 Mar 2009 13:23:09 +0100
From:   Robert Graf-Waczenski <rgw@xxxxxxxxx>
To:     Martin Schlander <martin.schlander@xxxxxxxxx>
References: 	<49ABA0C3.5000300@xxxxxxxxx> 
<200903021303.30698.martin.schlander@xxxxxxxxx>



Martin Schlander wrote:
> Mandag 02 marts 2009 10:02:59 skrev Robert Graf-Waczenski:
>   
> > Sorry if this has been asked before and if i'm not using the correct KDE
> > terms. I'm not a regular poster here but i'm using KDE 4 since the early
> > betas and i'm liking it a lot. Thanks to all who are involved in the KDE
> > project for giving me this huge result of their mostly private and in
> > many cases unpaid work!
> >
> > I'm using KDE 4.2 (updated recently from the factory repository) on
> > openSUSE 11.1 x86_64 and i'm observing the following odd issue: Since
> > quite some time, my desktop no longer reacts on the right mouse button
> > (which means that i can't change the desktop appearance settings such as
> > background image etc.). I *think* that this is caused by my desktop
> > being in "plain folder view" mode. I tried various things to get a real
> > plasma-like desktop again but failed. I deleted all plasma-related
> > configuration files, logged out, logged back in again - no luck. I even
> > created a fresh user and observed the same behavior, so this desktop
> > mode is apparently the openSUSE default one. I have one other account
> > that does not show this behavior, i.e. for this account i do have a real
> > plasma desktop with the cashew in the top right corner. The next thing
> > that i will probably try (if i find the time, which is not very
> > probable) is to copy over all settings from that other user to my
> > standard work user account. Instead i would like to know how to change
> > the desktop of my work user account back to my preferred full mode.
> > (And, as a bonus, i'd like to change the openSUSE default behavior to
> > *not* use this type of desktop mode but to instead create fresh users
> > with a real plasma desktop)
> >     
>
> There's no "plain folder view" desktop activity. There's "Plain desktop" which 
> is the normal kde4 desktop without the cashew, and there's "Folderview" which 
> _has_ the cashew, but shows you desktop-folder contents all over the desktop 
> just like Windows 95. Whatever desktop activity you use, it doesn't explain 
> the lack of the right click context menu.
>
> I think you need to look for other explanations, starting with your Qt version 
> - you should use Qt 4.4.3, I suspect you may be using Qt 4.5rc.
>   

I'm using Qt 4.4.3, not 4.5rc. I was actually considering to use Qt 
4.5rc to fix the issue but did not yet have the time and audacity to do 
so. How do i change the "desktop activity" that i'm using?

Robert


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