On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 14:03, Peter Cornelius wrote:
> Yuri said -
>
> >I showed her gaw-juss-ness which icon to click for OpenOffice, went to the
>
> bathroom and when I came back her document was already halfway out of the
> printer.
>
> and
>
> >Note - I'm talking about using, not installing or configuring.
>
> Precisely. It's getting the icon on the desktop in the first place, in
> order to avoid having to wade through the K menus.
Piece of Kake under KDE, kere's what you do:-
1) Open a Konsole shell window.
2) Issue the command 'locate soffice' -- What's between the quotes.
3) One of the lines from the previous will be something like:-
/opt/OpenOffice.org1.0.1/program/soffice
4) Click on it twice rapidly -- it will go into reverse video.
5) Right click on the KDE background
6) Place mouse-pointer on menu entry at top -- Create New. Another menu pops
up. Left-Click on existing menu.
7) Move mouse-pointer down to Link to Application in new menu-- Small
Cogwheel.
8) Left click -- Create Icon window pops up
9) Overwrite the "Link to Application" with the name you want to appear as the
caption to the new short-cut icon.
10) Left-Click on the Cogwheel.
11) Left-Click on the small Other Icons: button.
12) Go back to Konsole shell window.
13) Issue the command:- 'locate star_butterfly.png'
14) Click on the output line twice -- Same as 4 above.
15) Go back to the "Select Icon -- Konqueror" window.
16) Left-Click on the rectangular browse button. -- Big window pops up.
17) Left-Click in the Location: data entry window towards bottom of screen.
18) Middle-Click in same window.
19) Left-Click OK button to right. -- Window closes, Seagulls icon appears
replacing cogwheel
10) Left-click on the Execute Tab.
11) Move mouse pointer to the top data entry line labelled Command:
12) Left click, and then middle click. -- the path to the program which you
saved in the X-11 clipboard in step 4 above --
/opt/OpenOffice.org1.0.1/program/soffice -- will now appear in the window.
13) Left-Click on the OK button at the bottom right of the window.
14) Left-Click on the new icon and twiddle you thumbs while OpenOfficeOrg
starts up.
15) Exercise literacy skills.
Score: 5 - ( Informative )
Much easier to do than to describe.
--
Sincerely etc.,
Christopher Sawtell
