On Tue, 12 Nov 2002 09:03, you wrote: > 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.
They do now, we've just told them! > > 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 Indeed it is, I went through the whole business of finding out which file had the icon in it, by setting the display of icons so that it showed the pictures instead of the file names, and chose the first one I saw at the top of the list. The file name is a hang-over from Star Office, but the image in the file is new for OOo. Choose ooo_gulls.png instead if you find that more to your liking. > > 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? Trust a lawyer to spot the mistake! Yes you are right. Move steps 3 and 4 to after Step 10. > > 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. Note that I have included every tiny step so that even the very newest newbie, such as Her Gorgeousness, could do it. After you have been using a computer for a while most of the steps are second nature -- much like walking. > > Score: 5 - ( Informative ) > > > > Much easier to do than to describe. -- Sincerely etc., Christopher Sawtell
