Re: [kde] OK -I'm trying

On Thursday 25 December 2008 06:01:30 am Anne Wilson wrote:
On Thursday 25 December 2008 00:05:25 Bob Stia wrote:
Hello KDE list

Wellll....I'm trying. I want to be a believer in KDE4, so I downloaded
11.1 with KDE4.1 to try it out as a test bed. ( I tried previously with
11.0 and KDE4.0 and I hated it. So I just didn't touch it until 4.1 came
along) I must say it is an improvement and can do many more things than
in 4.0. Hopefully it will continue to improve.

Now....I have a few questions here after spending hours playing with it.
Hopefully some of the newly endowed KDE4 gurus can set me straight.

Hi, Bob. I can't answer all your questions, but I can answer some.

1 How does one get an application on the task bar? eg: Kmail. Konsole,
Gimp, Kwrite, etc.?

Find it in the menu - type the name into the search bar, if it's not
obvious - then right-click it. You will be given the option of putting an
icon onto the desktop or onto the panel.

Hello Anne,

Nope, No dialogue. Doesn't work. If I right click it (eg. kmail) it opens the
app. But I can then close the app and drag it to the desktop folder, which
works. If I try to drag it to the task bar it crashes kicker (task bar) Had
to delete plasmarc and start over.

Kicker (or Task Bar) is really funky. You can't add apps except what is
already there and trying to move stuff around is an absolute nightmare.

3. How does one change the icons for different functions? (Presently both
the screensaver and log out functions are using the Dolphin icon)

Do you mean in the menu? If so, does OpenSUSE give you a menu editor?
That's the place to change the icon, if it does. Click on the old icon and
you should see what's available to you.

No in the task bar, and no left or right clicks bring up any kind of menu.
Have no idea about how to do that. Wouldn't think that the screensaver or
the "log out" had their own icon or if it did, where to find it.

2.Yast has tiny tiny fonts. (I am visually impaired) I was able to
increase font size in KDE and GTK to my satisfaction, but there is
nothing for QT.

Not sure about that. Have you increased the size of fonts in
systemsettings > Appearance tab > Fonts? If you've tried all that it may
be an OpenSUSE- specific thing, since yast is their tool.

See my replies to other helpful people in this regard.

4. And this last is probably a bug but would like someone else to verify
it. Under Accessibility > Fonts > Sticky keys. If that is enabled it is
impossible to type anything into an app on the screen. Just doesn't
appear. eg: Konsole, Kwrite, any app which requires text input.

I would really like someone else to try this so I can verify if it my system
or a global thing. If others verify it I will file a bug.

Looked at your reccomended URL's. Not much there that I didn't know about. I
have been following development and trying to adopt.

Bob S
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