Hi,

some questions:
(1) Somehow my desktop lost it's ability to display or store icons.
Did I break something? And if, what?
(2) In former times there was a synaptics touchpad configuratior
integrated in kde control center. Is something like available for kde4?

thx alot!


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On Friday 03 October 2008 18:18:49 Dietz Pröpper wrote:
> Hi,
>
> some questions:
> (1) Somehow my desktop lost it's ability to display or store icons.
> Did I break something? And if, what?
dist-upgrade, you should have an old version of qt.


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On Fri, Oct 3, 2008 at 18:18, Dietz Pröpper <dietz@rotfl.franken.de> wrote:

Hi,



some questions:

(1) Somehow my desktop lost it's ability to display or store icons.

Did I break something? And if, what?

(2) In former times there was a synaptics touchpad configuratior

integrated in kde control center. Is something like available for kde4?



thx alot!





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kde4 is no longer supposed to display icons on the desktop
http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2008/05/no-more-desktop-icons-in-41.html


for the synaptics configurator i can't help you =)

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El Viernes, 3 de Octubre de 2008, Dietz Pröpper escribió:
> Hi,
>
> some questions:
> (1) Somehow my desktop lost it's ability to display or store icons.
> Did I break something? And if, what?

Things changed a little bit in KDE 4.1. In KDE 3 the desktop showed the
contents of one directory ("~/Desktop" by default, or whatever you configured
in the control center). In KDE 4.1, you have to add an applet called Folder
View:

http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Plasma/FAQ#I_heard_there_are_no_more_icons_on_the_desktop _in_KDE_4.1...

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> some questions:
> (1) Somehow my desktop lost it's ability to display or store icons.
> Did I break something? And if, what?

If you are referring to the change from kde3 to kde4: There has been a
paradigm shift!

In kde3 as a windows-like desktop environment, placing something in the
Desktop directory, an icon can appear on the screen "desktop". Drag an email
attachment to the desktop, get an icon, and the file in the Desktop directory.
Creating an icon from the desktop GUI produces a file.desktop in the Desktop
directory. Intuitively obvious and very familiar. The boss can place work on
an employee's desktop by simply saving a file in the Desktop directory. No
more.

Kde4 is divorced from the Desktop folder. You do not even need one. Icons are
entries to one rc file, and may or may not refer to real files stored
somewhere. No longer Windows-like or familiar. And no longer intuitive.

OK, you can drag a file to the desktop and get an icon referencing it. An
email attachment is in some volatile temp location so one can no longer drag
that to the desktop (It used to let you do it and the icon referenced air).

I still have .desktop files in my Desktop directory. I can drag those to the
desktop and have the layout I had in kde3. They do not act quite the same
right now but they are there.


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On Saturday 04 October 2008 01:41:23 Alejandro Exojo wrote:
> El Viernes, 3 de Octubre de 2008, Dietz Pröpper escribió:
> > Hi,
> >
> > some questions:
> > (1) Somehow my desktop lost it's ability to display or store icons.
> > Did I break something? And if, what?
>
> Things changed a little bit in KDE 4.1. In KDE 3 the desktop showed the
> contents of one directory ("~/Desktop" by default, or whatever you
> configured in the control center). In KDE 4.1, you have to add an applet
> called Folder View:
>
> http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Plasma/FAQ#I_heard_there_are_no_more_icons
>_on_the_desktop_in_KDE_4.1...

Yuk. Has the look and feel of those superkaramba transparent screen-wasters
(OK, a matter of taste). The folder-view plasmoid is good if only a few items
are in the folder and no subfolders Otherwise, I prefer to reference folders
with a simple icon (which you can still do).


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Besides the folder view plasmoid you can still have your every day use programs' "icons" (they are plasmoids, actually) on your desktop. Just drag the icons you want from Kickoff or Kmenu and drop them on the desktop and that's all.


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