On Thursday 03 December 2009 01:24:35 pm Larry Stotler wrote:
Ok, I installed 11.2 on my laptop and selected KDE4. So far it's slow, confusing, and I can't figure out how to make things work.
Please, no comments about googling. I've looked and looked, and now I'm ready to give up. But....
1. How do I change the K-Button from the Slab to the old style menu??
You said in another email you figured it out.
2. How do I get my desktop back? Somehow I clicked something and the desktop folder just disappeared.......How can I have a KDE3 style desktop? On the WHOLE desktop without some stupid config thing on the side.
In the upper right-hand corner is the Plasma icon. Click on it an select Desktop Settings (or possibly Plain Desktop Settings). This will open the Settings dialog box. Change the Desktop Activity Type to Folder View. This will give you a desktop similar to KDE3 with your Desktop folder icons displayed. Then close all of the widgets on the desktop by clicking on the X in the "stupid config thing on the side" of each widget. Finally click on the Plasma icon again and select Lock Widgets.
3. Is there a KDE3 Theme for KDE4? I looked at the available themes and didn't see anything useful.
Press Alt+F2 and in the box type "Personal Settings" and press enter. Click on Appearance and select Style and set it to Plastique and click Apply. Then click on the Windows and select Plastik for the window decoration. You can even go to Icons and select Crystal SVG for the icon theme. I thought i remember that Plastik was a popular theme for KDE3. In the Personal Settings, you can configure mostly everything for your desktop.
4. How do I change the panel? A lot of the old options are just gone.
You need to make sure that you unlock Widgets from the Plasma Icon. Once you do that, you'll notice a Plasma icon on the panel itself on the right. This allows you to add additional widgets to the panel by clicking on the Add Widgets button above the panel. And if you put your mouse over existing widgets, you see a cross-hair that allows you to move them on the panel. If you want to add applications to the panel, you need to go through the menu and right-mouse click on the application and select add to panel. Be sure to lock the widgets when you're done.
Basically, if anyone can tell me how to make it look and act like KDE3 I'd be very appreciative. I'll even work on adding a page to the Wiki. I just want clean and simple with no effects and no eye candy......
This is a P3 laptop with an ATI Rage128 based chipset with 8MB VRAM. Not interested in compositing or anything like that. KDE3/11.0 was so much faster than this.......
Thanx -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org