[opensuse] desktop icons and folderview swapping sides
Hi Is there any key combination that can cause my desktop layout to swap sides? My desktop has 2 icons (firefox and skanlite) on the hand side and a folderview on the right. I closed down the 2 programs i was using (firefox and Libreoffice writer) and discovered the icons and folderview had swapped sides. Prior to launching firefox and writer i resized the folderview by holding down the mouse button to launch the resize menu and enlarged it. Any ideas? Ian -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 01/15/2016 10:21 AM, ianseeks wrote:
Hi
Is there any key combination that can cause my desktop layout to swap sides? My desktop has 2 icons (firefox and skanlite) on the hand side and a folderview on the right. I closed down the 2 programs i was using (firefox and Libreoffice writer) and discovered the icons and folderview had swapped sides. Prior to launching firefox and writer i resized the folderview by holding down the mouse button to launch the resize menu and enlarged it.
Any ideas?
Ian
By Folderview, I suspect you mean a Widget/Plasmoid/as part of an "activity"? Running with widgets unlocked can cause weirdness to happen. Make sure your widgets are locked at all times. (righclick desktop, select lock widgets) Also make sure you have selected the Activity you thought you did. Those things can multiply like rabbits if you give them their head. I think KDE needs a Barn (the kind you find on farms), so they would have some place to take the programmers that forced Activities upon the world, walk them behind the barn and shoot them in the head. -- After all is said and done, more is said than done. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 16/01/16 05:57, John Andersen wrote:
On 01/15/2016 10:21 AM, ianseeks wrote:
Hi
Is there any key combination that can cause my desktop layout to swap sides? My desktop has 2 icons (firefox and skanlite) on the hand side and a folderview on the right. I closed down the 2 programs i was using (firefox and Libreoffice writer) and discovered the icons and folderview had swapped sides. Prior to launching firefox and writer i resized the folderview by holding down the mouse button to launch the resize menu and enlarged it.
Any ideas?
Ian
By Folderview, I suspect you mean a Widget/Plasmoid/as part of an "activity"? Running with widgets unlocked can cause weirdness to happen. Make sure your widgets are locked at all times. (righclick desktop, select lock widgets)
Also make sure you have selected the Activity you thought you did. Those things can multiply like rabbits if you give them their head.
I think KDE needs a Barn (the kind you find on farms), so they would have some place to take the programmers that forced Activities upon the world, walk them behind the barn and shoot them in the head.
Now, now, John, let's not be too hasty. A bullet to the head behind the barn would be too quick and a waste of a perfectly good bullet. No, they should be made to s-u-f-f-e-r just like us poor users are suffering. With this in mind, care to suggest another method of inflicting pain on the programmers? BC -- Using openSUSE 13.2, KDE 4.14.9 & kernel 4.4.0-2 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 15/01/16 11:23 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
On 16/01/16 05:57, John Andersen wrote:
I think KDE needs a Barn (the kind you find on farms), so they would have some place to take the programmers that forced Activities upon the world, walk them behind the barn and shoot them in the head. Now, now, John, let's not be too hasty. A bullet to the head behind the barn would be too quick and a waste of a perfectly good bullet.
No, they should be made to s-u-f-f-e-r just like us poor users are suffering. With this in mind, care to suggest another method of inflicting pain on the programmers? How about a bed of bamboo shoots? Mind you, they grow 6 to 8 inches per day, so it might not be slow enough :D -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 16/01/16 16:31, Darryl Gregorash wrote:
On 15/01/16 11:23 PM, Basil Chupin wrote:
On 16/01/16 05:57, John Andersen wrote:
I think KDE needs a Barn (the kind you find on farms), so they would have some place to take the programmers that forced Activities upon the world, walk them behind the barn and shoot them in the head. Now, now, John, let's not be too hasty. A bullet to the head behind the barn would be too quick and a waste of a perfectly good bullet.
No, they should be made to s-u-f-f-e-r just like us poor users are suffering. With this in mind, care to suggest another method of inflicting pain on the programmers? How about a bed of bamboo shoots? Mind you, they grow 6 to 8 inches per day, so it might not be slow enough :D
Y-e-a-h! Like what Genghis Khan did to prisoners: sit them on a sharpened bamboo shoot...... BC -- Using openSUSE 13.2, KDE 4.14.9 & kernel 4.4.0-2 on a system with- AMD FX 8-core 3.6/4.2GHz processor 16GB PC14900/1866MHz Quad Channel RAM Gigabyte AMD3+ m/board; Gigabyte nVidia GTX660 GPU -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 01/15/2016 10:21 AM, ianseeks wrote:
Hi
Is there any key combination that can cause my desktop layout to swap sides? My desktop has 2 icons (firefox and skanlite) on the hand side and a folderview on the right. I closed down the 2 programs i was using (firefox and Libreoffice writer) and discovered the icons and folderview had swapped sides. Prior to launching firefox and writer i resized the folderview by holding down the mouse button to launch the resize menu and enlarged it.
Any ideas?
Ian
By Folderview, I suspect you mean a Widget/Plasmoid/as part of an "activity"? Yep. Running with widgets unlocked can cause weirdness to happen. Make sure your widgets are locked at all times. (righclick desktop, select lock widgets) I shall do that, its the first time i've experienced any strangeness with unlocked widgets. Do you know if its a known issue with a bug report? It needs investigating. Also make sure you have selected the Activity you thought you did. Those things can multiply like rabbits if you give them their head. I'm completely baffled by how the desktop is defined under plasma. if you right click the desktop to access "Desktop Settings", you have to select "Wallpaper" to change the type of desktop. To my mind, a wallpaper was something you stuck on a desktop. i've not done anything with activities as
On Friday 15 Jan 2016 10:57:58 John Andersen wrote: they've never been any use to me, i might have used them if i was a developer, but as a user i can't find a use for them.
I think KDE needs a Barn (the kind you find on farms), so they would have some place to take the programmers that forced Activities upon the world, walk them behind the barn and shoot them in the head.
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On 01/16/2016 02:24 AM, ianseeks wrote:
Also make sure you have selected the Activity you thought you did. Those
things can multiply like rabbits if you give them their head. I'm completely baffled by how the desktop is defined under plasma. if you right click the desktop to access "Desktop Settings", you have to select "Wallpaper" to change the type of desktop.
What I meant here was if you right click the screen, and select Activities, you will see thumbnails of activities that you created (knowingly or unknowingly). If you have more than one, things can get confusing. Each activity can contain widgets/plasmoids/whatever in different combinations located in different places. On more than one occasion, I've accidentally created new activities that were pretty much indistinguishable from a previous one, and then wondered why changes I made to one or the other always seemed to revert. I currently use exactly one activity, and then I use different desktops within that single activity. In KDE4, you could have different wallpaper on each desktop, but the programmers forgot how to do this and stripped out this capability in their relentless bid to force activities down our throats. I suspect future versions of KDE will simply get rid of multiple desktops all together. Now that, after 20 years, these are available in Windows 10 so KDE will have to drop them. -- After all is said and done, more is said than done. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On 01/16/2016 11:11 AM, John Andersen wrote:
I currently use exactly one activity, and then I use different desktops within that single activity. In KDE4, you could have different wallpaper on each desktop, but the programmers forgot how to do this and stripped out this capability in their relentless bid to force activities down our throats. I suspect future versions of KDE will simply get rid of multiple desktops all together. Now that, after 20 years, these are available in Windows 10 so KDE will have to drop them.
I like desktops with different wallpaper, but I've also got a valid use case. I support a group of researchers who use openSUSE for computational science and signal processing. They will create 20 desktops with different processing scenarios and dance around between them as needed. They use the different wallpapers as a navigation aid to help their awareness of where they are in their multiple desktop topography. As an aside, I was also able to wean them from Matlab dependency over the past few years. We're exclusively using Scientific Python now, and loving it. FWIW, Windows is not an option for serious technical work, as if I had to say it here. Windows will need MUCH more than multiple desktops to become even marginally useful. Regards, Lew -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
On Saturday 16 Jan 2016 11:11:49 John Andersen wrote:
On 01/16/2016 02:24 AM, ianseeks wrote:
Also make sure you have selected the Activity you thought you did. Those
things can multiply like rabbits if you give them their head.
I'm completely baffled by how the desktop is defined under plasma. if you right click the desktop to access "Desktop Settings", you have to select "Wallpaper" to change the type of desktop.
What I meant here was if you right click the screen, and select Activities, you will see thumbnails of activities that you created (knowingly or unknowingly).
i see what you mean, i didn;t realise this.
If you have more than one, things can get confusing. Each activity can contain widgets/plasmoids/whatever in different combinations located in different places.
On more than one occasion, I've accidentally created new activities that were pretty much indistinguishable from a previous one, and then wondered why changes I made to one or the other always seemed to revert.
I currently use exactly one activity, and then I use different desktops within that single activity. In KDE4, you could have different wallpaper on each desktop, but the programmers forgot how to do this and stripped out this capability in their relentless bid to force activities down our throats. I suspect future versions of KDE will simply get rid of multiple desktops all together. Now that, after 20 years, these are available in Windows 10 so KDE will have to drop them. it does seem a mis-calculation to change it. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org
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