Re: [SLE] Hardware scan on boot, removal of hware and leftovers

From: Basil Chupin (blchupin_at_tpg.com.au)
Date: 01/21/04

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    Dylan wrote:
    > On Tuesday 20 January 2004 12:55 pm, Basil Chupin wrote:
    >
    >>Carlos E. R. wrote:
    >
    > <SNIP>
    >
    >>>I don't care much about such things as desktop icons...
    >>
    >>I don't either. On the <shudder> OTHER unnamed OS I have installed I
    >>have a totally clean Desktop with all icons slotted away in separate
    >>folders (aptly titled like Utilities, Games, etc) and these appear on
    >>the Taskbar which I auto-hide. However, while I have tried, I cannot
    >>do same in Suse/KDE :-( . Perhaps when KDE matures a bit more.
    >
    >
    > KDE does this with no problem. To add a directory of icons to the
    > 'taskbar' right click and choose Add>Special button> quickbrowser. Then
    > in the dialog choose a folder you have set up with the relevant links.
    >
    > The autohiding is controlled in Control Center>Desktop>Panels (in
    > 8.2/kde3.1.5)

    Thanks for the response.

    I should have been clearer: the first thing I do when I install Suse is
    to configure the Desktop to auto-hide the taskbar so this is no mystery
    to me. It was the elimination of icons that I was referring to.

    I need to work thru what you said about creating a "folder [you have]
    set up with the relevant links". I did the Add>Special
    Button>Quickbrowser bit but this brought up a swag of files/folders in
    my home directory.

    The bit that I need to work thru is what you mean by "set up with the
    relevant LINKS". Do you mean symbolic links or some other type of links?

    I ask this because when I first installed v9 last year I created a
    folder on the Desktop into which I moved all the HD and floppy icons,
    and then moved that folder into the Taskbar. (This is how I tackle it on
    the OTHER OS.) However, I could not give this new folder (which I named
    HDs) a new icon of its own. Also, you will recall that there was a bug
    in KDE at the time and I ended up with an unholy mess with copies of the
    HD etc icons all over the place when KDE was updated :-). For this I
    will hasten forward slowly.

    Cheers. 

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