KDE 4.1 Panel useability: moving buttons

Hi,

with KDE 4.1 (on opensuse 11) I inadvertently deleted the opensuse menu
button on the left of the bottom panel. When I re-added it, it appeared
on the right edge of the panel.

I didn’t find any way of moving it to the left again. Is it really not
possible, or is the way of doing it hidden so well that I couldn’t find
it even after looking for a while?

Regards,
Jörg

You cannot move buttons on panels.
A solution consist to remove all applets from the panel, and then readd them in the correct order.

Yes you can reposition icons on panels since version 4.098 (RC1).

  1. Make sure your widgets are unlocked
  2. Right click on panel > Panel Settings
  3. Hover your mouse over the icons, a cross-arrow will appear, allowing you to drag and drop.

Right click on panel select panel settings
hover on menu icon a move cross will appear move menu icon same with clock etc
right click on bar that appears above panel move panel
this came with one of the later rc1 upgrades

dale14846 wrote:

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> Right click on panel select panel settings
> hover on menu icon a move cross will appear move menu icon same with
> clock etc
> right click on bar that appears above panel move panel
> this came with one of the later rc1 upgrades
>
>
damn, did not know this
this is documented/announced somewhere?
are there are other things I’m missing from 3.5.x implemented that I’m unaware of?

Suse 11.0 x64, Kde 4.1beta (factory repo), Opera 9.x weekly

well i found this quite informative about kde4.1 features:

Projects/Plasma/FAQ - KDE TechBase

stefan

I found that out quite by accident just by messing around to see what right or left clicking would do the move crosses just appear
hovering over the panel

In the top right corner of your desktop you can choose to lock or unlock widgets. The panel objects are widgets too. After unlocking you can right click the startmenu and start moving it almost completely to the left. Then you right click again to stop moving. Now you right click the desktop icon witch is probably the most left icon to move it one step to the right.

Right click again to stop moving and select lock widgets in the top right corner menu to prevent this from happening again.

That works, thanks for the help!

FalconP wrote:
> Yes you can reposition icons on panels since version 4.098 (RC1).
>
> 1. Make sure your widgets are unlocked
> 2. Right click on panel > Panel Settings
> 3. Hover your mouse over the icons, a cross-arrow will appear, allowing
> you to drag and drop.
>
>
>