On 01/24/2010 11:00 AM, Dotan Cohen pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
The term widget was invented here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Athena
An icon by anyother name is still just an icon.
Right, but these are interactive components. They are not icons.
You are right in that no one is forced to lock them down. However, if you don't they will get scattered all over the desktop willy-nilly at random.
I have never seen this happen. Did this not happen to you in KDE 3 without locking? Then why should it happen in KDE 4 without locking?
It happened to me and several others in the early development of KDE4.x. Perhaps the problem was fixed.
And, in this sense, you cannot add new ones to the desktop it's not even offered from the selection menu unless the desktop is unlocked.
But you are going to leave it unlocked anyway, no?
Not unless the problem of wandering icons has been fixed.
My main point here is why is it necessary to "lock down" the desktop inorder to have a stable desktop?
It is not necessary. It is an additional feature that KDE 3 did not have, and one that you are free not to use.
Then it appears to be a useless "feature" if it is not needed.
I assume that you are now referring to the icons in Konqueror.
No, I am referring to the icons on the desktop.
I wrote that while I was still misunderstanding you. I meant to erase it, see the bug that mentioned with that text, it is the bug you were looking for. Just ignore that one sentence.
Dotan, I and many others really appreciate the hard work you are doing in trying to get KDE4.x feature complete. My reference to MS is having only one desktop to use. I believe many thousands of people got use to having multiple desktops to work with and it is hard to break. I refer to some who state that they only use _one_ desktop which requires you to zoom your desktop "view" in and out to get to the other apps running on your computer when a simple switch to another desktop works faster for me. Enough of my ranting and back to trying to learn more of this KDE4.x beast. -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org