--- On Wed, 2/24/10, Anton Aylward <anton.aylward@rogers.com> wrote:
From: Anton Aylward <anton.aylward@rogers.com>
Charles Obler said the following on 02/24/2010 04:51 PM:
How I managed to miss koffice is even harder to explain. I went through the KDE list line by line, and still, somehow, missed it.
Dunno how to explain that. You must be as fallible as I am.
Once again, I'm not "bitching" or complaining. I'm simply trying to rebuild the cozy servicable system I had under 3.5, and reporting on my experience. I'm not expecting help, but I appreciate help when it is kindly offered. Thank you for directing me to the above programs.
I had problems with KDE4.0 :-/
I'm wondering if your settings imported badly or something or something. along the way I completely wiped out everything to do with KDE3. Maybe that helps.
Try this. Create a brand new account, one that _never_ had anything to do with KDE3. Reboot etc, log in to the new account. Its going to have the default settings, which obviously are not what you want to end up with, but we now have a clean baseline to work from.
Write down every adjustment you make to this new account's config, and do it in terms of the new account, so if it says "Activity" or "applets" or "widgets" or "pager" or "System Tray" or "Task manager" or "Application Launcher" or "panel", use the KDE4 terminology, not what you think it was under KDE3.
If its an icon you'll find it in /usr/share/icons :-) If its not there then its not an icon, is it?
If you want, I'll work with you, step by step, configuring things. You may want to set up some mechanism for taking backup snapshots (and being able to restore them) of the ~/.kde4/ for this account.
Perhaps the first thing to do is take a snapshot of the new screen so as to be able to point at things :-) ksnapshot or kgrab - did you know about that one?
I confess, I'm feeling a lot better about KDE 4, now that my configuration problems have been addressed, and now that I have found freecell! :) I'll do as you suggest, if it's necessary, but this is not the right time. Taxes are coming due -- maybe that explains why I'm distracted. I appreciate all that Linux has given me, and for years now, I've wanted find a way to give back to the community. The main problem is that I'm likely to make things worse instead of better. As I wrote in the OpenSuSE survey, I need guidance -- someone telling me what needs to be done and then reviewing my work. I used to know how to program in C++ and Java. I do bash and javascript and Python. I can write documentation. Just point me in the right direction. Thank you for your help. I guess I should even thank you for the abuse, since it is well-deserved! :) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org