Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (154 mails)

[Paul Hands <jphands@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dotan Cohen wrote:
> 2009/9/5 Paul Hands <jphands@xxxxxxxxxx>:
>   
> > 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!
>
>
>
>   
> > Any ideas?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Paul
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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
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