On Mon, 11 Nov 2002 23:06:02 +1300 Christopher Sawtell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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. how does anyone know what tthe binary is called? What has soffice got to do with Open Office - ok you & I know it derived from Start Office, but not everyone does. > 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' this is even more counter-intuitive than having to find soffice to run a program > 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. won't it have disappeared when you used the clipboard to save the name of the icon file? > 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. > I love linux, but this sort of carry on is enough to turn people off. > Score: 5 - ( Informative ) > > Much easier to do than to describe. > > -- > Sincerely etc., > Christopher Sawtell > -- Nick Rout Barrister & Solicitor Christchurch, NZ Ph +64 3 3798966 Fax + 64 3 3798853 http://www.rout.co.nz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
