On Monday 13 Feb 2012 16:43:42 phanisvara das wrote:
On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 15:49:02 +0530, Will Stephenson <wstephenson@suse.de>
wrote:
I do, and he doesn't use folder view mode AND does (did?) have icons on his desktop. If you drag an application from the menu, or a file from Dolphin, to the desktop, or right click an app in the menu and choose Add To Desktop, an Icon widget is created directly on the desktop containment, no FolderView needed. KDE 4.0 veterans will recall this was the only way to have icons on the desktop, and FolderView was introduced later so that we had all the sorting, multiple selection, layout options that were familiar from kdesktop.
right, and here was i, thinking i knew my way around KDE by now.
i've always used either folder view or the default desktop, and never noticed that it's possible to create all types of icons on a 'normal' desktop. interesting...and thanks for letting me know.
There's always something more to learn. For my own edification on the train back from the PIM sprint, I started reading through /usr/bin/startkde and cross referencing with the available documentation on its components. I finally learned what 'kcminit' does on startup - it's a program that runs an initialization function defined by some System Settings modules to apply settings on startup, such as setting the cursor theme and X dpi. The interesting thing was that not all of the modules that state they need kcminit's help at startup actually do, leading to unnecessary module loads delaying login. That will be fixed for 12.2... Oh by the way, the opensuse-kde team is making Stability and Polish our main themes for 12.2, this is part of that. Will -- Will Stephenson, openSUSE Board, Booster, KDE Developer SUSE LINUX GmbH, GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendörffer, HRB 21284 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstraße 5 90409 Nürnberg Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org