Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1986 mails)

[Anders Johansson <ajohansson@xxxxxxx>]

On Sunday 30 November 2008 16:34:00 David C. Rankin wrote:
>       When you find a use for the little and floating windows with my desktop
> inside --- please let the rest of us know... In KDE 4, the little window is
> a plasmoid (somebody forgot how to say w-i-n-d-o-w).

Brings back memories of trying to explain object oriented design to people: 
there is a difference between "has a" and "is a".

A plasmoid isn't a window. It can have one, but it isn't one itself.

> With KDE4, you don't
> have a real desktop anymore, instead you must create different windows or
> plasmoids to display icons on your desktop and the icons all must stay in
> the window,

No, that is the folder view you're talking about. You can have individual 
icons on the desktop, but if you want everything from a particular folder 
shown, then you use the folder view. It is a window, because people might want 
to have more than one, and not be restricted to just ~/Desktop, but if that is 
what you want, you can make the folder view take up all your desktop and be 
done with it

>       Also, you can no longer add an application 'menu' to the taskbar in kde4
> (like editors, terminal, or your own custom menu folder).

I'm not 100% sure what you mean, but it's perfectly possible to add a menu to 
the panel. The taskbar (the place in the panel where you see your open 
windows) could never hold a menu ever

Anders

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