John Andersen schrieb:
Mike wrote:
On Thursday 04 December 2008 00:30, Herbert Graeber wrote:
Use a folder plasmoid, that covers the whole desktop and some plasmoids in the panel instead of task icons and you have nearly the same like a KDE3 desktop. The last time I saw this, I had to ask. What the heck is a plasmoid? Or a widget? The answer I got was that somewhere there is an entire place that explains everything. Gee, that's great. But in the meantime I don't have a working desktop, and can't figure it out.
Very odd this should come up just now.
I've spent the last 30 minutes trying to put the simple command /usr/bin/kfmclient openProfile filemanagement into a desktop icon. (plasmoid, confuse-oid, call it what you will).
You can do this easily enough with anything that is in the menu but you can't seem to just add a desktop icon for a heavily used task. There is just no method to do so. Windows, Mac, Kde3, Gnome, XFCE4, they can all do this in the most obvious way. Why can't KDE4?
The only way to do this that I could find was to create a menu item with menu editor (very well hidden, that) and from there you can create a obfuscate-oid on the desktop. Why? Why does it have to be that difficult.
Yes, I know, everybody has a special feature he is missing. But this is not about a single feature, but about the whole picture. BTW: you can drag an icon from the menu into the desktop folder. And you can using the desktops property dialog, you can have a folder spanning over the whole desktop, similar to the KDE3 one. You will ask, why isn't this the default. But why hide such new features? Why shouldn't the new flexibility be show to the user? Now it it is possible to have more than folder on the desktop! I heard people asking for such a feature. Now they have got it! ~/Desktop isn't special any more... You can even having virtual folders there showing the results of a search, and so on. Many new useful features, no bling. Herbert -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org