Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1696 mails)

[Stan Goodman <stan.goodman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 22:48:15 on Friday Friday 17 July 2009, Anders Johansson 
<ajohansson@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Friday 17 July 2009 21:42:11 Stan Goodman wrote:
> > I have just noticed a new icon on my main panel. It looks like a
> > globe of the Earth. When I click on it, it tells me only "new
> > server", and asks which directory I want to share, and the address of
> > the lucky server. The default address is the name of this computer on
> > my LAN, so the arrival of the icon doesn't seem to be the result of
> > foul play. On the other hand, I can't see any use for this thing,
> > which calls itself "kpf". None of the usual repositories seem to know
> > anything about kpf.
> >
> > How do I go about removing it from my machine? If that is impossible
> > or undesirable, how to I go about removing the icon, which is taking
> > up space on the panel?
>
> kpf is the kde personal fileserver. How it got onto your panel I
> couldn't say, normally you have to manually right-click on the panel
> and add it, but it's certainly not something unofficial or nefarious.
> It is simply a quick way for a user to share files without having to
> install and configure nfs or samba or ftp. This I think would qualify
> as "a use".
>
> You should be able to simply right-click on it and select "remove from
> panel"

That's what I thought too, but it doesn't happen. Clicking with MB1 or MB2 
is all the same; both bring up a very small window labeled "New server", 
and clicking on that (again, with either button) brings up the 
configuration dialog.


-- 
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel
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