Hello, On Sun, 24 Apr 2011, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* David Haller
[04-24-11 16:49]: On Sun, 24 Apr 2011, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
<rt-clk> on screen select "Unlock Widgets" <rt-clk> on far right end of panel select "Panel Settings" grab "Screen Edge", center of 3rd panel up pull to bottom of screen and release <rt-clk> on screen select "Lock Widgets"
I'm flabbergasted at how intuitive KDE4 is.
There is undoubtedly a text file that could have been altered to accomplish the same but I no longer know which file to edit.
Aye. And as far as I know KDE, you'd have to edit that file while KDE was not running, as it'd probably "update" that file on exit, overwriting your changes.
Seldom is the guiey as efficient as the cl :^)
Jep. Seldom are there really good UIs -- but, at times, those do last. Samples: CLI: we all know that one, choose your pois^Wshell and tools (I like perl as my swiss army knife ;) Most efficient for most tasks. Often takes a bit more time the first time around, but if you "archive" that (history, alias, function, script) ... Combined with a few good TUI Apps like mc, Bob's your uncle. There's tons of stuff running here daily that I'd need big honking libs (e.g. strigi and what not) to do "GUIish". With the CLI, I wrote myself a script basically calling find with a ton of options (mostly involving -prune), similar to updatedb, that generates me specialized indices of some huge file-archive (local, extern and via NFS, updated as available). A small script around awk does the search part ;) And a perl-script+Module I can pipe through does sorting in a various (weird) ways, the default being parsing a date contained in the filename and sorting after that ... I'd go bonkers to implement that what I do daily with those in a GUI (or TUI or GUI). Even though I probably could, given enough time and money. TUI: (Text UI) Norton Commander / mc and further clones, how long has that UI been around, how often imitated, also in GUIs?), I use mc as my every-day file manager; menuconfig (like it a lot better than the gtk/qt variants, and tons more than the linear CLI version). GUI: Ah, well, WMaker + xterms for me, really, but there are some good GUIs, I like gimp, as you have everything at at right-click, but, you know ... Oh, some (old) games had quite nice UIs too.[0] Ah, FreeDoko has quite a good and efficient GUI. WUI: (Web UI) I've yet to find a sample that doesn't suck planets through nanotubes. -dnh [0] does flying with Joystick and Keyboard in Descent count as an GUI? I don't think so. But other Games had quite efficient UIs, IIRC. -- Hey, what do you expect from a culture that *drives* on *parkways* and *parks* on *driveways*? --Gallagher -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org