On 07/31/2011 11:10 PM, Ken Schneider - openSUSE wrote:
On 07/31/2011 03:02 PM, Stan Goodman pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
On 07/31/2011 08:49 PM, Mark Goldstein wrote:
On Sun, Jul 31, 2011 at 8:29 PM, Stan Goodman
wrote: On 07/31/2011 07:52 PM, sc wrote:
On Sunday, July 31, 2011 11:23:13 Stan Goodman wrote:
I've tried that too, clicking on the icon picture after choosing Properties, then clicking on the png file.
Clicking on the png file knows only one trick, which is opening Gwenview.
Investigating further:
Right clicking on an "icon" in a "desktop folder" will allow for changing of the "icon" picture.
However, if the "icon" is actually a "widget" located on the desktop then it appears that you cannot change it.
It seems clear that it is not an "icon" in the sense that kde4 understands the term; evidence for that is the fact that it can't be modified in the same way that "real icons" can be modified. One needs to understand the psychology of icons, widgets, plasmoids, ectoplasm, and hobbits to fathom this, because the system's response is only silence. As I wrote in my original query, I am dealing with a Java application that I have been using for many virtually trouble-free year, formerly under OS/2, and since under openSuSE. I start it by using a very short and ordinary script that is buried in the file system. Perhaps naively, I thought to place a link on the desktop, so that starting the application would be less inconvenient. For whatever reason (and I would like very much to know what it is), this simple act seens not to have produced a "real link", but a pseudolink that does start the application, but is immutable, because its ~/Desktop/____.desktop file is very unlike that of other "icons" on the Desktop Folder. Back in oS v11.1 (i.e. in kde3) I ran into this problem very briefly, and found it simpler to put the application into a second Panel, along with some other applications (both KDE and otherwise) that I was using. That option is, as I understand it, no longer available, because panels are ONLY for widgets anymore. To summarize, what I really want to do is to be able to start this application from somewhere on the desktop (including, but not limited to, the Desktop Folder). I hope that someone can suggest a way of doing that. -- Stan Goodman Qiryat Tiv'on Israel -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org