>Precisely. It's getting the icon on the desktop in the first place, in

In KDE I drag the "program" icon from the templates folder into the desktop.

In the properties for my newly created program link,
I browsed to /opt/openoffice/bin/soffice
No-one told me that was the correct bin file - I just guessed
(and guessed correctly).

No-one taught me what the templates folder in kde is for,
I guessed correctly based on past experience with OS/2.

I don't expect my wife to be able to add a program shortcut
to the desktop in either kde or windows, that's what she
has me for!

And my openoffice is complete with help files.
I installed openoffice from a CD bought at the
e-caf in the art centre (thanks paul).

Working for an isp I field a lot of calls from users
whose windows set-ups have become unexplicably screwed-up,
and a non-techie home user is just as lost in fixing
their windows set-up as they would be with linux.

The help desk guys usually tell the customer to re-install,
and the customer usually ends up getting a techie friend
to do that.

Any computer, regardless of OS, requires at least _some_
specialist knowledge or a techie friend.

Yuri

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