Re: Some questions regarding kde4
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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