On Wednesday, 2009-11-18, James Tyrer wrote: > Kevin Krammer wrote: > > On Wednesday, 2009-11-18, Draciron Smith wrote: > >> Ways people have found to get around things > >> like not being able to add an app, or configure the desktops to show > >> ONLY the apps on that destop. > > > > Not able to add an app where to? > > I presume to KickOff. I had problems with early versions. Not sure > what the problem was, but it appeared that the menu wouldn't update. I > tried using KAppFinder to add some X utilities and it simply didn't > work. I found that I had to add /usr/share to the XDG_DATA_DIRS path -- > thought that it was the default. yes, /usr/local/share:/usr/share should be the default for XDG_DATA_DIRS if not set to anything else. Since you wrote "had to add": did you have to set to something else before? > And now they are there without adding > them. But, I can't add them to the Panel. Hmm, works for me using drag&drop onto an unlocked panel. Even moved applets aside to make space. Also works to drop on the quick launch applet. > > And of course it is possible to only show the applications of the current > > desktop in the taskbar. > > It is one of the options in the taskbar's configuration dialog, which as > > usual can be opened through the taskbar's context menu. > > This menu can be hard to find in some circumstances. Specifically, you > have to click on a blank part of Task Manager which doesn't always > exist. I have had this problem. It would be nice if all of these KCMs > were accessible in System Settings. If I put the panel into configuration mode, I can click anywhere on an applet, at least anywhere on the tasklist. Cheers, Kevin -- Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer KDE user support, developer mentoring
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