Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1581 mails)

[Anton Aylward <anton.aylward@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Constant Brouerius van Nidek said the following on 02/28/2010 01:37 AM:
> On Friday 26 February 2010 21:24:41 Anton Aylward wrote:
>
> > This is using the applets and "icons" in a way that doesn't fight
> > KDE4, frees up screen real-estate and give a great deal of
> > functionality.
> >
> > It makes it clear that these are application launchers - not 'icons'
> > - and focuses them.
> Thanks Anton,
> After your clear 

mumble mumble :-^

> instructions, I also made the plunge into the
> application launcher and I like it.
> Have though a small problem. E.g. if I try to launch Kmix it starts the 
> command and nothing shows up. Same with KwikDisk.
> How come?

Dunno.  Lets guess.

I don't have kmix in the set of application launchers.

I have the icon kmix in my system tray. (see attached screenshot)
How did t get there?
I *think* I ran kmix at some time and it ended up there.

I click on it and I get the volume control and a button that says
"mixer".  When I click on that I get. not a mixed gender party but
rather a window with lots of sliders.

Obviously something is wrong.  This is not intended as a mixer is the
sense that a normal, non technical person would use the term, another
example of the failure of the techie-geek-minded designers of KDE4 to
perform proper end user analysis.....

Mixer?  Oh, sorry, you meant Canada Dry?

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