Dylan wrote:
On Tuesday 20 January 2004 12:55 pm, Basil Chupin wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
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I don't care much about such things as desktop icons...
I don't either. On the <shudder> OTHER unnamed OS I have installed I have a totally clean Desktop with all icons slotted away in separate folders (aptly titled like Utilities, Games, etc) and these appear on the Taskbar which I auto-hide. However, while I have tried, I cannot do same in Suse/KDE :-( . Perhaps when KDE matures a bit more.
KDE does this with no problem. To add a directory of icons to the 'taskbar' right click and choose Add>Special button> quickbrowser. Then in the dialog choose a folder you have set up with the relevant links.
The autohiding is controlled in Control Center>Desktop>Panels (in 8.2/kde3.1.5)
Thanks for the response. I should have been clearer: the first thing I do when I install Suse is to configure the Desktop to auto-hide the taskbar so this is no mystery to me. It was the elimination of icons that I was referring to. I need to work thru what you said about creating a "folder [you have] set up with the relevant links". I did the Add>Special Button>Quickbrowser bit but this brought up a swag of files/folders in my home directory. The bit that I need to work thru is what you mean by "set up with the relevant LINKS". Do you mean symbolic links or some other type of links? I ask this because when I first installed v9 last year I created a folder on the Desktop into which I moved all the HD and floppy icons, and then moved that folder into the Taskbar. (This is how I tackle it on the OTHER OS.) However, I could not give this new folder (which I named HDs) a new icon of its own. Also, you will recall that there was a bug in KDE at the time and I ended up with an unholy mess with copies of the HD etc icons all over the place when KDE was updated :-). For this I will hasten forward slowly. Cheers. -- All Scottish food is based on a dare.