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:/
--
Regards,
Tarlika Elisabeth Schmitz
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