Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-kde (176 mails)

[Giacomo Comes <comes@xxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Oct 08, 2010 at 04:16:36PM +0200, Will Stephenson wrote:
> > So, what I have done is to create in openSUSE 11.3 the directory
> > /usr/share/kde4/apps/plasma-desktop/init and create there the file
> > 00-defaultLayout.js. Its content is mostly cut and past from
> > 00-defaultLayout.js and
> > plasma/layout-templates/ork.kde.plasma-desktop.defaultPanel/contents/layout
> > .js from kde4.5 with some modification in order to have exactly the same
> > look of the default kde4.4 desktop.
> >
> >
> > ################# BEGIN 00-defaultLayout.js ###################
> >
> > var topLeftScreen = 0
> > var rect = screenGeometry(0)
> >
> > // find our "top left" screen to put the folderview on it
> > for (var i = 1; i < screenCount; ++i) {
> >     var g = screenGeometry(i)
> >
> >     if (g.x <= rect.x && g.top >= rect.top) {
> >         rect = g
> >         topLeftScreen = i
> >     }
> > }
> >
> > for (var i = 0; i < screenCount; ++i) {
> >     var desktop = new Activity
> >     desktop.screen = i
> >     desktop.wallpaperPlugin = 'image'
> >     desktop.wallpaperMode = 'SingleImage'
> >
> >     print("for screen " + i)
> >     if (i == topLeftScreen) {
> >         var folderview = desktop.addWidget("folderview")
> >         folderview.writeConfig("url", "desktop:/")
> >         folderview.reloadConfig()
> >     }
> > }
> >
> > var panel = new Panel
> > if (panelIds.length == 1) {
> >     // we are the only panel, so set the location for the user
> >     panel.location = 'bottom'
> > }
> >
> > panel.height = 28
> > var widget = panel.addWidget("launcher")
> > widget.globalShortcut = "Alt+F1"
> > panel.addWidget("showdashboard")
> > var widget = panel.addWidget("icon")
> > widget.writeConfig("Url",
> > "file:///usr/share/applications/MozillaFirefox.desktop") var widget =
> > panel.addWidget("icon")
> > widget.writeConfig("Url",
> > "file:///usr/share/applications/kde4/dolphin.desktop")
> > panel.addWidget("pager")
> > panel.addWidget("tasks")
> > panel.addWidget("systemtray")
> > panel.addWidget("digital-clock")
> > panel.addWidget("lockout")
> >
> > ################# END 00-defaultLayout.js ###################
> >
> > The script works, but it has one problem. On the first login
> > (or after erasing ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc)
> > it creates the panel as expected, but the desktop is totally black
> > (no wallpaper or folderview widget).
> > After logout and login, the desktop is there and everithing is ok.
> > How can I avoid the black desktop on the first login?
>
> I think this could be a bug in KDE 4.4 that was fixed in 4.5.  Many of the 
> Plasma components did not reload their configuration when configured by 
> scripts, so the changed configuration is only used after a quit and restart 
> of 
> plasma-desktop.  Can you test your modifications in a 4.5 system and see they 
> work as planned there?
>
> Will

Yes they work fine in 4.5. Is there a way to make it work properly in 4.4?
May be triggering an automatic logout on the first login?

Giacomo
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