Marc Chamberlin said the following on 02/21/2010 07:22 PM:
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I cannot understand how one controls the display of icons that one wants available on a "desktop".
In short, you don't. Well, maybe. You have the option of setting the 'desktop' to be one of four things. One of those is to display a folder, which is pretty much the old KDE3 way. Th others are 'newspaper mode", "search and launch" and the default. The default lets you put - not icons - widgets on it. I have on my desktop A clock The weather A Big display of my "desktop" folder. I can have more than one folder on the desktop at a time, which if you think about it, is a better "desktop" model than putting icons there. My physical desk has folders (and other things) on it. They all "do" or "contain" things, so they are more like widgets.
On another these are displayed in a semi-transparent "folder" window and on the fourth "desktop" there is nothing displayed at all.
Err, I think you mean "Activities" not desktops. One of the thing many people thing wrong with "Activities" is that a) all the desktops in one activity have the same background and -- sorry, Spanish inquisition time, two things b) all the desktops in one activity have the same widgets
In my various attempts to normalize and understand how these are configured, I have managed to change them but have no understanding of how I manage to change the configuration or why.
I think, perhaps, because you are confusing "Activity" and "desktop". -- There is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head. --Theodore Roosevelt -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org