[opensuse-kde] KDE 4.3.1 / SuSE 11.1 : How to add and move Kicker Applications?
Hi all, Sorry if I'm being stupid, but I've just loaded the latest KDE, and it looks great on my T60p Thinkpad - all the compositing and eye candy works beautifully. However, I cannot find a way to add icons to the Kicker panel. The icon might be to launch an application like Firefox or Thunderbird. Also, I cannot move icons already on the panel. I can delete them, but that's it. There's no "add application icon" context menu pick as described in the help documents. I've used KDE 3 for years, and all this stuff is second nature, but maybe KDE4 has changed the mechanism and I can't find it. Trying to drag icons to move them also doesn't work. I've tried the lock/unlock widgets menu pick, but it makes no difference. Any ideas? Thanks, Paul -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
2009/9/5 Paul Hands <jphands@eircom.net>:
Hi all,
Sorry if I'm being stupid, but I've just loaded the latest KDE, and it looks great on my T60p Thinkpad - all the compositing and eye candy works beautifully.
However, I cannot find a way to add icons to the Kicker panel. The icon might be to launch an application like Firefox or Thunderbird. Also, I cannot move icons already on the panel. I can delete them, but that's it. There's no "add application icon" context menu pick as described in the help documents. I've used KDE 3 for years, and all this stuff is second nature, but maybe KDE4 has changed the mechanism and I can't find it. Trying to drag icons to move them also doesn't work. I've tried the lock/unlock widgets menu pick, but it makes no difference.
Paul, I find the current panel configuration to be very unintuitive and I need users to prove it! Please tell me exactly what you tried (what did not work) so that I can report it as being the more intuitive behaviour (which will hopefully make it into a future KDE release). Thanks!
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Paul -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
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Dotan Cohen wrote:
2009/9/5 Paul Hands <jphands@eircom.net>:
Hi all,
Sorry if I'm being stupid, but I've just loaded the latest KDE, and it looks great on my T60p Thinkpad - all the compositing and eye candy works beautifully.
However, I cannot find a way to add icons to the Kicker panel. The icon might be to launch an application like Firefox or Thunderbird. Also, I cannot move icons already on the panel. I can delete them, but that's it. There's no "add application icon" context menu pick as described in the help documents. I've used KDE 3 for years, and all this stuff is second nature, but maybe KDE4 has changed the mechanism and I can't find it. Trying to drag icons to move them also doesn't work. I've tried the lock/unlock widgets menu pick, but it makes no difference.
Paul, I find the current panel configuration to be very unintuitive and I need users to prove it! Please tell me exactly what you tried (what did not work) so that I can report it as being the more intuitive behaviour (which will hopefully make it into a future KDE release). Thanks!
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Paul -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
OK. No problem, and thanks for replying so quickly! I'm a long term (Since SuSE 5.1!) KDE user, so have got very used to the KDE3 mechanisms. I removed my~/.kde4 directory before running kde4.3.1, to give it a clean start. On logging in, I get the default setup, with the Kicker panel at screen bottom. I want to add firefox, thunderbird and Konsole buttons at the bottom left, where the ""show the plasma dashboard", dolphin, Konqueror and recent devices apps are. KDE help says that I should be able to right click on a space in the panel and use the "add application icon" menu pick. No such menu item is present. Just to be sure, I tried this on a newly created empty panel at the top of the screen, and no such menu item exists there either. So, I can't add new application launch icons. The context menu gives : add panel, add widgets, lock widgets, panel settings and remove this panel options,but not add application icon as described in the help. I can add widgets, no problem, from the selection provided by the add widgets menu pick. However, those widgets always go the far right of the panel, and I cannot move them to a different position. Drag move doesn't do anything, and there is no context menu with a move option. I tried adding a widget - the application launcher so I could perhaps edit it. It's not editable. Does that make sense? Regards, Paul -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
Lørdag den 5. september 2009 18:14:30 skrev Paul Hands:
However, I cannot find a way to add icons to the Kicker panel. The icon might be to launch an application like Firefox or Thunderbird. Also, I cannot move icons already on the panel. I can delete them, but that's it. There's no "add application icon" context menu pick as described in the help documents. I've used KDE 3 for years, and all this stuff is second nature, but maybe KDE4 has changed the mechanism and I can't find it. Trying to drag icons to move them also doesn't work. I've tried the lock/unlock widgets menu pick, but it makes no difference.
There's no kicker in kde4, just a plasma panel. To add app shortcuts either drag from the menu or right click a menu entry -> add to panel. Widgets must be unlocked first. To move widgets in the panel, unlock widgets -> click on the cashew in the right side of the panel to open the panel configuration dialog. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
Martin Schlander wrote:
Lørdag den 5. september 2009 18:14:30 skrev Paul Hands:
However, I cannot find a way to add icons to the Kicker panel. The icon might be to launch an application like Firefox or Thunderbird. Also, I cannot move icons already on the panel. I can delete them, but that's it. There's no "add application icon" context menu pick as described in the help documents. I've used KDE 3 for years, and all this stuff is second nature, but maybe KDE4 has changed the mechanism and I can't find it. Trying to drag icons to move them also doesn't work. I've tried the lock/unlock widgets menu pick, but it makes no difference.
There's no kicker in kde4, just a plasma panel.
To add app shortcuts either drag from the menu or right click a menu entry -> add to panel. Widgets must be unlocked first.
To move widgets in the panel, unlock widgets -> click on the cashew in the right side of the panel to open the panel configuration dialog.
Hi Martin, and thanks for replying :-) The approach of dragging from the "K" menu works, but limits you to stuff which is already in that menu. In my case, I want to add a completely new application from an arbitrary location, like /opt/..... I can't do that like I could in KDE 3. The move thing doesn't work at all - I've tried it several times and no luck. The panel shows as unlocked (the menu says "lock widgets), but dragging doesn't work. Just to be sure, I tried it with the menu saying "unlock widgets" but no change. What am I doing wrong? P -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
Lørdag den 5. september 2009 19:23:32 skrev Paul Hands:
Martin Schlander wrote:
There's no kicker in kde4, just a plasma panel.
To add app shortcuts either drag from the menu or right click a menu entry -> add to panel. Widgets must be unlocked first.
To move widgets in the panel, unlock widgets -> click on the cashew in the right side of the panel to open the panel configuration dialog.
The approach of dragging from the "K" menu works, but limits you to stuff which is already in that menu. In my case, I want to add a completely new application from an arbitrary location, like /opt/..... I can't do that like I could in KDE 3.
To work around this "issue" add the item to the menu first with kmenuedit
The move thing doesn't work at all - I've tried it several times and no luck. The panel shows as unlocked (the menu says "lock widgets), but dragging doesn't work. Just to be sure, I tried it with the menu saying "unlock widgets" but no change.
What am I doing wrong?
Do you remember to open the panel configuration dialog by clicking the cashew which becomes visible to the right in the panel when widgets are unlocked? Just unlocking widgets is not enough. It's supposed to roughly look like this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrouuYxGu3E If it still doesn't work I guess your installation is broken or your mouse doesn't work properly or something. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org
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