On Thursday 04 December 2008 11:44, Herbert Graeber wrote:
I've spent the last 30 minutes trying to put the simple command /usr/bin/kfmclient openProfile filemanagement into a desktop icon. (plasmoid, confuse-oid, call it what you will).
You can do this easily enough with anything that is in the menu but you can't seem to just add a desktop icon for a heavily used task. There is just no method to do so. Windows, Mac, Kde3, Gnome, XFCE4, they can all do this in the most obvious way. Why can't KDE4?
The only way to do this that I could find was to create a menu item with menu editor (very well hidden, that) and from there you can create a obfuscate-oid on the desktop. Why? Why does it have to be that difficult.
Yes, I know, everybody has a special feature he is missing. But this is not about a single feature, but about the whole picture.
And the "whole picture" seems disjointed. That is a special feature that's necessary if someone wants to get work done.
BTW: you can drag an icon from the menu into the desktop folder. And you can using the desktops property dialog, you can have a folder spanning over the whole desktop, similar to the KDE3 one.
Why? A folder for the desktop? Why not just a desktop? There are folks that really prefer simplicity, and NOT BLING! And I do use kde. I've used it as long as I've run SuSE, which is somewhere around 10 years or so.
You will ask, why isn't this the default. But why hide such new features? Why shouldn't the new flexibility be show to the user?
Now it it is possible to have more than folder on the desktop! I heard people asking for such a feature. Now they have got it! ~/Desktop isn't special any more...
You can even having virtual folders there showing the results of a search, and so on. Many new useful features, no bling.
Naa. That's bling. I've got 4 desktops that I use and don't need a folder for each one. One click and I'm on the next one. Simple and easy. I would imagine that one day I'll try KDE4 again, but for now it just doesn't work for me. Mike -- 12:16pm up 56 days 16:25, 4 users, load average: 1.33, 1.29, 1.32 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org