Re: [kde] getting started
- From: T E Schmitz <mailreg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Jun 2006 12:44:12 +0100
Hello Kevin,
Thank you for taking the time to reply.
Kevin Krammer wrote:
On Wednesday 28 June 2006 22:26, T E Schmitz wrote:
2) When I run Galeon and Evolution, none of the icons are showing
(except Trash and a couple of others.) I have a feeling that this might
be the case because these two applications take their application icons
from /usr/share/pixmaps?
They should still find their icons, they run independent from KDE. Maybe they
are expecting some kind of environment they are not able to start themselved,
e.g. gconf daemon or something like that.
Right enough, when running Gnome, some kind of on-the-fly icon
"translation" seems to take place: this becomes apparent when using a
different icon theme.
Question is whether whatever deamon it is that is required could be run
when using KDE.
I am not so bothered about Galeon as I have already switched to
Konqueror although I am still using Gnome at present. But I was
intending to use Evolution as organizer/diary. And without icons the
apps are useless.
3) Drawers a la Gnome Panel don't exist as far as I can see. Is this
correct? (I'm sure you are sick of the question ;-))
I think not in the same sense. You can add submenus of the KMenu and a quick
browser that lists the contents of a certain directory.
But I haven't used drawers at all, so I might be thinking of a completely
different thing :)
A Gnome drawer is a drop-down menu, which you can add to the panel and
populate yourself with whatever launchers you like.
4) I would like a "create symlink" in Konquerors context menu (as is
available in Krusader and Nautilus).
If you drag&drop into a different directory, you'll get a context menu
allowing you to create a link instead of move or copy.
Right enough; but that requires you to have 2 Konqueror windows.
Is it possible to add to the context menu by writing your own scripts?
(You can do this with Nautilus.)
5) I notice that KDE applications have an up and a down arrow at the
bottom of a vertical scrollbar. Can one get rid of the up arrow by any
chance?
That is part of how a particular style renders scrollbars. It might be
configurable for your current style or you could try a different one that
doesn't do this.
Most styles display a an arrow for both directions, the nice looking
ones anyway. Of course, I could use the MS Windblows 9x style - yuk!
I'd rather check out whether "Plastik" can be configured. ;-)
6) Folder + Wastebasket Icons on the desktop or when using Icon View in
Konqueror, do not change appearance when dragging a file across (to
indicate the drop position). Both Winblows and Nautilus darken the
folder and Trash icon when dragging and dropping. Is this a bug or a
feature?
No idea, sorry.
Do you know what I mean though? You must have used Windoze at some point
in your life. I can't think of a system that doesn't indicate when
you're over the folder icon or trash.
7) Is it possible to have a shared Wastebasket between KDE and Gnome?
That should already work. KDE3.5 implements the trash specification GNOME and
KDE developers agreed on through freedesktop.org.
There could of course be bugs in either implementation.
When I started KDE, there was no trash icon at all on the desktop. I
created it, which resulted in a file ~/Desktop/directory.trash:
[Desktop Entry]
Type=Link
URL=trash:/
Encoding=UTF-8
Icon=trashcan_full
EmptyIcon=trashcan_empty
Name=Trash
Name[en_GB]=Wastebin
Comment=Contains removed files
OnlyShowIn=KDE
This works fine in KDE. But when starting into Gnome, a desktop file
"Wastebin" shows up on the desktop. When double-clicked, it displays the
contents of the Gnome Trash.
However, when deleting files under KDE or in Konqueror [under Gnome],
the files are moved to the KDE trash:/
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Regards,
Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz
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