On Saturday 28 March 2009 15:38:24 Christian Henz wrote: > On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 12:56:02PM +0000, Anne Wilson wrote: > > They do have icons, but that is just my point. Not every icon is > immediately recognizable, especially on seldom used applications, or they > look similar... I cannot understand how 50% would prefer this labeling > scheme... I think it would only be helpful for a very unexperienced user > for a short time and start to get in the way rather quickly. I am annoyed > by it every time I use the launcher now... > It used to be possible to change that in kmenu-editor, but that app doesn't seem to be in my distro. I'm not sure what has happened to it - I'm sure I've seen it since I started using KDE4. I'll ask about that. > > > sometimes there is a little "-" ontop of > > > it (no idea what that means). > > > > It means that if you hit that, it will remove the widget in question. > > I don't mean the separate "-" icon - that one I understand :) > I mean the fact that the yellow star sometimes has a "-" drawn ontop of it. > Did you try it? I don't have one like that at all, so I can't try it myself. > Mhh, they work for me too, it is just that too many of them are shown when > I open the Bookmarks menu. In Firefox, this is implemented as a scrollable > list, which looks much more sane (even though it is not very practical to > use with that many bookmarks) and does not get in the way. BTW this is > probably not a KDE 4.2 issue, I just noticed it now. > My bookmarks in Konqueror are a scrollable list, just as they are in Firefox. > > Take a look at the shortcuts in systemsettings/Advanced tab and see why > > that is happening > > Obviously these shortcut can be (and habe been) changed by the user. But my > point was that too many as well as conflicting shortcuts are enabled by > default. > I expect that is also a matter of preference. What I was referring to was your claim that a wrong application is being launched. I was saying that you should find out why in File Associations and fix it. I can't believe that this is happening to everyone else - there would have been lots of screams if it were. > > > Audio: > > > ------ > > > > Sound is problematic on some hardware. Please do not remove pulseaudio > > until you have explored all possibilities of fixing it. You need to ask > > specific questions, probably both here and on a debian list. > > Well it has not been problematic on my hardware for quite some time, as > long as applications did not use OSS and stuck to the "default" Alsa PCM > device. Now I see weird stuff like a "x-phonon" Alsa device (wasn't Phonon > supposed to be high level?) and sound does not work properly... > 'Doesn't work properly' tells us nothing. Why not start a thread with a precise definition of the problem? Anne -- New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org Just found a cool new feature? Add it to UserBase
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