I've investigated a big about the possibilities to customize the KDE panel in KDE 4. Here are some notes.
The shortcut buttons that where present in KDE 3 is gone. Instead, there is a favorites tab when selecting the K menu in the lower left corner.By default, the favorites list is hardcoded to konqbrowser, kmail, systemsettings and dolphin. I've requested this to be made configurable in <URL:http://bugs.debian.org/570977>, and submitted a draft patch to implement it this morning. I hope we can get the patch into KDE in time for Squeeze. If not, we must probably provide a replacement kickoffrc file either in /usr/share somewhere or in each users home directory to override the favorite list. I suspect we want to replace konqbrowser with iceweasel in the favorites list, and perhaps add OOo Writer like we did for KDE 3? For default applets, it is now easier to modify the default list. All desktop files in /usr/share/autostart/ are started if I am not mistaken. At the moment in Squeeze, it look like this on a Workstation installation: r...@localhost:~# ls /usr/share/autostart/ kab2kabc.desktop korgac.desktop kabcdistlistupdater.desktop krunner.desktop kgpg.desktop nepomukserver.desktop klipper.desktop plasma-desktop.desktop kmix_autostart.desktop restore_kmix_volumes.desktop konqy_preload.desktop r...@localhost:~# I suspect we want to start krandrtray in addition to these when it is installed, and perhaps some other applets too. For laptops, the network manager applet should be started, and probably the power status one too. Happy hacking, -- Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
