17 Sep
2010
17 Sep
'10
6:20 a.m.
New observations with using my existing ~/.kde
directory:
1. Several new icons appeared on the desktop (root and non-root). The
icons were in
the upper left of the desktop in a single horizontal row
rather than the traditional vertical row along the left side:
Web Browser
My Documents
My Computer
Printers
My Network Places
There are two icons named Trash, but one was a document icon. The latter
is the one
representing the original Trash.desktop file in my ~/Desktop
directory.
I'm curious why they appeared horizontally rather
than vertically. They
appeared verically with a new, fresh Trinity desktop.
Home was on the desktop.
In 3.5.10 I see only Home and Trash.
I discovered how to disable the new icons in Configure
Desktop/Behavior/Device Icons. Nice touch for most users! Probably needs
some
documentation somewhere so new Trinity users are forewarned. :)
Were
those device icons added in 3.5.11 or 3.5.12? The
appropriate web pages
should be updated. I don't see anything on the 3.5.11
page.
I presume with the new Device Icons support, that
users should delete
the
old Trash.desktop file from ~/Desktop? Seems to work
here.
Yes. This was a long standing point of irritation for me; if Micro$oft
could make it easy to access those system functions, then why couldn't
KDE? I see the configuration options have also passed the
user-discoverability test. ;-)
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2. When I select a panel quick launch app(let) icon, or a desktop icon,
the icon
flashes and grows momentarily. That likely provides useful
feedback for many people. I don't see anything obvious in the Panel
configurations to disable. Probably will slowly drive me nuts. :) Please
tell me of a way to disable that feature!
I don't see one offhand. I never used stock KDE3.5.10 until very
recently, so I didn't even notice there was a difference! Thank you for
bringing that to my attention; I will need to add a configuration option
to disable it.
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3. Mentioned previously, but I'll include here now that things are
getting
fixed. The Klipper icon in the system tray is larger
than the system
tray.
I cannot see the top or bottom part of the icon. This
does not seem to
be
a system tray icon problem as other system tray icons
look fine.
Interestingly, this happens only on the root desktop and not my non-user
testing desktop. I renamed the klipperrc file and started X. Same
problem.
Screen grab:
http://humanreadable.nfshost.com/images/klipper.png
That is downright weird. It's probably related to the new icon resizing
support, but I wonder why it has not cropped up before, or with other
tasktray programs that share the same base code?
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5. The root konqueror toolbars look weird.
Screen grab: http://humanreadable.nfshost.com/images/konq.png
Update: when I created a new fresh Trinity desktop as non-user, I saw
the
same artifacts in the Konqueror toolbars.
Can you send a screen grab of what they are supposed to look like?
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I hope this helps!
It sure does!
Tim