lynn wrote:

On Sunday 12 October 2008 03:13:42 Basil Chupin wrote:

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lynn wrote:

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If I choose desktop folder view (the one that makes it look like kde-3) is there any way of aligning the icons horizontally without moving each one?

Thanks.

Right-click on the desktop and select "icons" and then the option you want to use?

Ciao.

Thanks but I tried that. There is only sort, align to grid and lock in place.

Yes, you're right. You know, I have never, ever, placed the icons horizontally (always vertically) and so have never bothered to look if there was a way to automatically have them aligned horizontally :-) . (When I was using Windows XP I did not have any icons on the desktop - the desktop(s) was/were clean, each showing one of my favourite pictures. I created different folders, containing specific icons, which were located in the Task Bar and therefore there weren't any icons on the desktop. I wish I could get back to this situation but KDE doesn't have this capability :'( . Perhaps in several years time when it catches up with Windows' technology.) Ciao. -- If you go through life with your head in the sand, all people will see is an arse. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Don Raboud wrote:

On October 12, 2008 06:26:10 am Basil Chupin wrote:

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(When I was using Windows XP I did not have any icons on the desktop - the desktop(s) was/were clean, each showing one of my favourite pictures. I created different folders, containing specific icons, which were located in the Task Bar and therefore there weren't any icons on the desktop. I wish I could get back to this situation but KDE doesn't have this capability :'( .

Something like QuickBrowsers?

Not too sure - I've had a search for QuickBrowsers and I don't think I've come across something which would provide what I am talking about. But thanks for the reference. Ciao. -- If you go through life with your head in the sand, all people will see is an arse. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Rajko M. wrote:

On Sunday 12 October 2008 07:26:10 am Basil Chupin wrote:

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Perhaps in several years time when it catches up with Windows' technology

It would be better that you catch with Linux technology. Remebering how works something that you don't want to use doesn't help you, nor new guys that are looking for information about openSUSE.

Don gave you one option.

Here is another: KDE 3: I just used Menu Editor to create subfolder Favorites and copy-paste (Ctrl-C Ctrl-V) few items in it. It is possible to create submenus and crowd there whatever one likes.

KDE4: The same should work with traditional menu widget, but KDE4 default menu has Favorites selection opened by default. You can put there whatever program from other manus you want. Find one program that you want in Favorites, right click on it and from context menu select Add to Favorites. Done.

Thanks for the response. But I am talking about a "default" ability of creating a folders into which you then place individual applications according to the purpose for which the folder was created. For example, in Windows XP I had folders - which I then placed in Quick Start - named "Utilities", "Games", "Multimedia", etc. Applications relevant to the name of the folder were placed in the appropriate folder. If I wanted a Utility - eg, a disk defragmenter, or a music file editor - I would bring up "Utilities" from the QuickStart bar and run the relevant applciation. The use of Favourites is not what I was referring to nor looking for. Ciao. -- If you go through life with your head in the sand, all people will see is an arse. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Rajko M. wrote:

On Saturday 18 October 2008 12:43:10 am Basil Chupin wrote: ...

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Thanks for the response.

But I am talking about a "default" ability of creating a folders into which you then place individual applications according to the purpose for which the folder was created. For example, in Windows XP I had folders - which I then placed in Quick Start - named "Utilities", "Games", "Multimedia", etc. Applications relevant to the name of the folder were placed in the appropriate folder. If I wanted a Utility - eg, a disk defragmenter, or a music file editor - I would bring up "Utilities" from the QuickStart bar and run the relevant applciation.

The use of Favourites is not what I was referring to nor looking for.

OK.

I guess that you refere to the most left part of the task bar, next to the Start button in Windows, ie. KDE Main Menu. Yes, I am referring to this part of the TaskBar - the 'quick launch' part.

In Windows I had folders like Utilities, CDs, DVDs, Games, etc residing there and would 'call up' the one I wanted and run an app. in the selected folder. I had no icons on the Desktop(s) at all, the Desktop was simply a 'clean' picture, a wallpaper - even the TaskBar was invisible; and before anyone asks, the Recycle Bin was also in the TaskBar, and not on the Desktop because I had a little known utility from MS which created 4 Desktops but also allowed the Bin to be relocated to the TaskBar and removed from the Desktop. Each Desktop had its own wallpaper - like one had with KDE3.x. Ciao. -- If you go through life with your head in the sand, all people will see is an arse. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org

Don Raboud wrote:

On October 17, 2008 11:26:19 pm Basil Chupin wrote:

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Don Raboud wrote:

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Something like QuickBrowsers?

Not too sure - I've had a search for QuickBrowsers and I don't think I've come across something which would provide what I am talking about. But thanks for the reference.

On October 17, 2008 11:43:10 pm Basil Chupin wrote:

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But I am talking about a "default" ability of creating a folders into which you then place individual applications according to the purpose for which the folder was created. For example, in Windows XP I had folders - which I then placed in Quick Start - named "Utilities", "Games", "Multimedia", etc. Applications relevant to the name of the folder were placed in the appropriate folder. If I wanted a Utility - eg, a disk defragmenter, or a music file editor - I would bring up "Utilities" from the QuickStart bar and run the relevant applciation.

But this sounds exactly like QuickBrowsers. At least in kde 3.x, which is what I am using. Not sure about gnome or kde4.

Create a directory on your desktop (or wherever you like) call it Utilities (or whatever you like). Create links in that directory to whatever applications, files, directories, urls, etc. are appropriate.

Drag the folder and drop it on the taskbar. You are prompted to added it as either

- Add as File Manager URL - Add as QuickBrowser

Choose QuickBrowser.

If this is what you are looking for, you can then add more QuickBrowsers if you like.

I hope this helps.

Thanks again, Don, but I cannot find QuickBrowser anywhere in the apps. available for openSUSE (am I looking in all the wrong places?) and, as you say, it may be OK for KDE3 but I am using KDE4.x and have never used dwarf, errr...gnome. In any case, there are more troublesome matters to overcome in KDE seeing as how KDE4 is to be foisted on us with openSUSE 11.1 than worrying about creating separate folders for groups of apps. to put into the 'quicklaunch' part of the 'taskbar' :-) . Ciao. -- If you go through life with your head in the sand, all people will see is an arse. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org