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. > 2. How does one get different wallpaper on the other desktops? (This was > one of my must have's in KDE3. Always knew where I was) > As far as I know this is not yet implemented. However, if you set up Activities they can have different wallpapers. (The snag is that I haven't played with these recently, so I don't know how useful they are at this moment. Last time I tried I could set one up, but couldn't do much with it. That's a good while since, though, so they may be 'good to go', particularly if you have 4.2 or a beta of it.) > 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. > 4. How does one invoke system sound for certain events, like changing to a > different desktop or the closing of an app? > I'll have to try to find out this for you - I would have expected it to be systemsettings > Advanced tab > KDE Resources, which is the equivalent of the KDE3 place, but the only things I'm seeing there are controls for kontact applications. > The following are probably not KDE4 centric but I thought I would mention > them in case someone has an idea/thought/solution: > > 1. I can only print in black & white. Don't know why. Used to be able to > specify those options in the printer dialogue and they no longer appear. > I think that the new print dialogues tend to take more settings from CUPS - at least that seems to be my experience. I'd guess that something there is not quite right. You don't seem to be able to overrule CUPS settings, and I think you could in the past. > 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. > 3. Repos in Yast. I have the very basic ones. Used to be able to download a > list and choose the ones you wanted. No can do anymore. Need to find them > and enter them manually? > Sorry, you'll have to ask an openSUSE list (or IRC channel) about that. > 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. > No idea, sorry. > Now, I really don't expect any kind of replies for several days. After all > it is Christmas!! > > Merry Christmas to all, and to all a good night ! Merry Christmas to you Bob (I'm just having coffee, so had a few moments to spare :-) ). Enjoy your playing with KDE4, and don't forget that http://userbase.kde.org has a lot of helpful information. I'd particularly recommend the Plasma page (http://userbase.kde.org/Plasma/4.2) which will answer a lot of questions, and http://userbase.kde.org/Glossary to help you get up to speed on the new vocabulary. HTH Anne
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