I installed OpenSuSE 11.1 keeping my old 11.0 /home partition.
However, while everything else seems to go fine, my kicker-like bar on
the bottom now only occupies a small fraction of the screen horizontally
on KDE 4.1.
I tried to play somehow with the commands, but I cannot find any way to
give it back a normal size, nor does “Configure desktop” seem to work on
KDE.
If I try Alt-F2 and type “kicker”, I do get my gool old kicker bar, but
the new “kicker” (or whatever it is called now) does not want to go away
to make place for the bar:(
Is that a known bug or is there something I am not doing as I should
???
buckesfeld;1912378 Wrote:
> * Paganel75,
> it isn’t “kicker” any more in KDE4. Rght click the panel, panel
> settings.
>
> HTH
> UweThank you. I clicked, but cannot seem to find that way -any- of the
things I had in kicker : no “off” or “logout” buttons, no icons for
instant access to OpenOffice Writer, Firefox, and the like, no buttons
to switch virtual desktops, nothing :’(
Paganel75 wrote, On 12/28/2008 04:46 PM:
> I clicked, but cannot seem to find that way -any- of the
> things I had in kicker : no “off” or “logout” buttons, no icons for
> instant access to OpenOffice Writer, Firefox, and the like, no buttons
> to switch virtual desktops, nothing :’(
>
> Did I do anything wrong ?
No, it’s just different from KDE3. Once you started playing with it, you’ll get used to it.
As for favorite apps: Just drag and drop them from the main menu to the panel.
As for special apps: Right click the panel, Add Widget. Some are not available. I also missed the logout buttons, but since clicking the desktop somewhere with the right mouse click offers the lock screen and logout feature just like in KDE3, I don’t miss that any more. I actually think it was a waste of space now
Sooner or later somebody will write a widget for it, I’m sure. Maybe there’s already one on the web, I don’t know.
The “Pager” widget is the one allowing you to switch between desktops.
buckesfeld;1917347 Wrote:
> * Paganel75 wrote, On 12/28/2008 04:46 PM:
> No, it’s just different from KDE3. Once you started playing with it,
> you’ll get used to it.
> As for favorite apps: Just drag and drop them from the main menu to the
> panel.Thank you, Uwe, but please, how the hell do I get a main menu at all
???
I am also puzzled by right clicking on the desktop : I had finally got
used to getting the -lock/unlock plasmoids- choice, and as I was
beginning to like it, well, it disappeared, from the choices and I just
do not know if it is a bug, a quirk, a feature or just something I did
wrong >:(
I get a “Sort Icons” menu that dod not seem to be here before, but
which does not seem to do anything.
Generally speaking, is there a way in KDE4.x to revert to how things
were before the last change - just like any decent application allows
nowadays, sometimes even repeteadly - with Ctrl-Z (Undo) or anything
similar ? Thank you…
