Stan Goodman said the following on 06/12/2010 12:08 PM:
I want to produce in the kde4 panel something like the behavior that I found effective and useful in kde3 panels. What was done then was to arrange on a second panel at the top of the screen icons representing the apps and utilities that I used routinely, so that loading one of them was a simple matter of reaching up with the mouse and clicking on whatever I needed.
As far as I have been able to find, the panel in kde4 doesn't lend itself to containing anything but a limited set of "widgets". Clicking in an unoccupied region of a panel with MB2 (called by right0handed people "right-click") brings up the following list of items: Add Widgets, Add Panel, Lock Widgets, Panel Settings, and Remove this Panel. Nothing about non-widget objects. For that matter, nothing about moving even a widget from one location to another on the panel -- where is falls is where it has to remain. I am sure that I am missing something, because I do not believe that functionality can have been removed, thus rendering the panel a far less useful thing. What is it that I am missing?
Sorry, Stan, you are not correct, it does and this has been discussed here before. (And yes you can move widget about within a panel!) As it happens, I have my 'apps' bar on the right hand side with autohide. If you check the archives for 26th Feb 2010 with the subject "Making Sense of KDE4" I describe in detail how to set this up. -- Warning: Do not look directly into laser with remaining eye. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org