On 06/18/2014 11:43 AM, C wrote:
Other than the cashew thingy (and even that can be hidden), almost everything (that was listed) can be changed by simply using a different desktop widget, or making your own if none suit your needs.
IIR some of that list is doable, there just isn't a GUI i/f to do it. Probably the developers were of the opinion that some things should be used by intelligent defaults. In the case of the clock I have in my panel I see no point in altering the font size independently of the panel size. Much of life is like that. I can't specify/change the compression ration of the cylinders of my car or the ratio of/number of teeth in the gear train or the differential ratio. On another thread the issue of usability if Linux ("On suse being difficult ...") came up. In the 90% case the defaults are sensible/reasonable. Yes, those of us who let the 'inner geek' surface might want to micromanage everything. Perhaps such people shouldn't be using KDE4. Well at least we aren't forcing Windows/8 on you! But as I understand it I can install 3rd party widgets (or write my own in a variety of languages). I see some in Python and javascript http://userbase.kde.org/Plasma/Installing_Plasmoids An yes there is a GUI to add those 3rd party or self-written widgets. Specifically, at http://opendesktop.org/content/show.php?content=156715 you will find "A minimalistic clock with configurable font and text color." All in all, I think the mistake was to call KDE4 "KDE4". If it has been called "Plasma" and there was a KDE3 to Plasma convert setting tool where there is an appropriate analogue and KDE3 was just let where it was for interested parties to keep up, then a lot of this griping would not have happened. -- /"\ \ / ASCII Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML Mail / \ -- If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org