| On Wednesday 18 February 2009 22:00:40 Anne Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 18 February 2009 10:34:34 Rick Miles wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I have had a look at kde 4.2 today. In my case the official slackware > > packages now in /current/testing. > > > > I've spent some time getting the feel of it and am liking it more as I go > > but there are some niggling configuration issues I have yet to sort out. > > You will find a wealth of information and help on http://userbase.kde.org > :-) In particular, look at > > http://userbase.kde.org/Tutorials/KDE3toKDE4 > http://userbase.kde.org/Tutorials/File_Management > http://userbase.kde.org/KWin > > > One can no longer create an icon on the desktop using rightclick create > > link to application. How is it now done. > > http://userbase.kde.org/KWin > > > I quite liked being able to put my mouse over an icon in konqueror and > > having a little popup tell me things like what type of video > > file/encoding it was, what type of audio it contained, etc. I have not > > figured out how to get this in dolphin. Is it possible? > > Not sure about that. I use the Information panel in dolphin. More details > at http://userbase.kde.org/Tutorials/File_Management > > > I have not found any way to set file associations except through > > configure konqueror. Is there another way? > > Set these in SystemSettings, Advanced tab. > > > It seems that somehow scribus has been set at the top or near the top as > > associated with every type of text file. It would take ages to delete it > > manually from every text file listing using configure konqueror. Are > > there any settings files related to this that I could just run through > > with awk or sed and delete all the scribus entries and if so where are > > they. > > Can't help on scripting. Isn't it enough to change association for the > file types? > > > Finding the new way to do configuration is the most trying thing so far > > otherwise this will be enjoyable once I get used to it. > > Most things that were in kcontrol are now in systemsettings. A few of the > old controls really only applied to one or two applications. They have > been moved to the application settings. > > Sorry to reply so much in links, but there is so much more information on > those links than I can put in an email. HTH > > Anne Thanks Anne. I'll check the links out tomorrow,. I don't know how I missed that advanced tab. I removed the scribus references manually but I still would like to know how/where the mime info is stored away. Silly me I'm just used to editors and such. Never did like/trust gui configurators all that much :<) |
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