Re: When will KDE4 get a desktop like in KDE3.x ?

2008-10-22 Thread BRUCE STANLEY
--- On Tue, 10/21/08, Craig White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Craig White [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: When will KDE4 get a desktop like in KDE3.x ? To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. fedora-list@redhat.com Date: Tuesday, October

Re: When will KDE4 get a desktop like in KDE3.x ?

2008-10-22 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 05:54 -0700, BRUCE STANLEY wrote: --- On Tue, 10/21/08, Craig White [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To tell me that I should not lose abilities that I once had and used for the sake of some new dogma that someone else believes in is like chalk scrapping against a

Re: When will KDE4 get a desktop like in KDE3.x ?

2008-10-21 Thread Linuxguy123
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 01:02 -0400, Chris Snook wrote: Linuxguy123 wrote: Here is a comment from a recent KDE4.2 review: The Desktop Plasma has most goals listed for inclusion in KDE4.2, followed closely by

Re: When will KDE4 get a desktop like in KDE3.x ?

2008-10-21 Thread Patrick O'Callaghan
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 06:20 -0400, Linuxguy123 wrote: On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 01:02 -0400, Chris Snook wrote: Linuxguy123 wrote: Here is a comment from a recent KDE4.2 review: The Desktop Plasma has most

Re: When will KDE4 get a desktop like in KDE3.x ?

2008-10-21 Thread Joonas Sarajärvi
2008/10/21 Linuxguy123 [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Why can't we have files and icons on the desktop, ala KDE3.x ? You can, but someone has to create the functionality before it can be used. In the meantime, why can't you just use the folderview widget? If you make it big enough, it is functionally very

Re: When will KDE4 get a desktop like in KDE3.x ?

2008-10-21 Thread Joonas Sarajärvi
2008/10/21 Patrick O'Callaghan [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Do we have to go over all this yet again? The whole topic has been done to death on this list several times. In a nutshell: if you're using Fedora you're a *TESTER*. You have plenty of other distros to choose from if that doesn't suit you.

Re: When will KDE4 get a desktop like in KDE3.x ?

2008-10-21 Thread José Matos
On Tuesday 21 October 2008 00:50:46 Linuxguy123 wrote: Why can't we have files and icons on the desktop, ala KDE3.x ? You can on kde 4.1 for folder view plasmoids. kde 4.2 will allow this plasmoid to fill the whole screen. If you want a reason this is so we can search on the internet. A good

Re: When will KDE4 get a desktop like in KDE3.x ?

2008-10-21 Thread Andrew Parker
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 1:02 AM, Chris Snook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Linuxguy123 wrote: Here is a comment from a recent KDE4.2 review: The Desktop Plasma has most goals listed for inclusion in KDE4.2, followed

Re: When will KDE4 get a desktop like in KDE3.x ?

2008-10-21 Thread Anoop
On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 7:08 PM, Andrew Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 1:02 AM, Chris Snook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Linuxguy123 wrote: Here is a comment from a recent KDE4.2 review: The

Re: When will KDE4 get a desktop like in KDE3.x ?

2008-10-21 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Monday 20 October 2008 23:50, Linuxguy123 wrote: Why can't we have files and icons on the desktop, ala KDE3.x ? You can. Use folder-view widget, and point it to the Desktop folder under your home directory. However... It could be argued that files and icons do not belong on the desktop,

Re: When will KDE4 get a desktop like in KDE3.x ?

2008-10-21 Thread Rex Dieter
Linuxguy123 wrote: Here is a comment from a recent KDE4.2 review: The Desktop ... With the default “plasmoid” desktop setting, we can add the plasmoids, but the files/icons are not supported, KDE3’s style. http://polishlinux.org/kde/quick-look-at-kde-42-svn/ Why can't we have files and

Re: When will KDE4 get a desktop like in KDE3.x ?

2008-10-21 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 06:20 -0400, Linuxguy123 wrote: I've been using Linux since Redhat 8. *NOTHING* that has happened since then has ever rocked my expectations of Linux as much as KDE4 has. I have faith that you will eventually get over it. Craig -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: When will KDE4 get a desktop like in KDE3.x ?

2008-10-21 Thread Fred Silsbee
--- On Tue, 10/21/08, Chris Snook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Chris Snook [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: When will KDE4 get a desktop like in KDE3.x ? To: Community assistance, encouragement, and advice for using Fedora. fedora-list@redhat.com Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2008, 5:02 AM

Re: When will KDE4 get a desktop like in KDE3.x ?

2008-10-21 Thread kwhiskerz
Fred Silsbee wrote: other than hide a panel, what is missing Auto-hide is back!!! I just discovered it under panel properties/more settings. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@redhat.com To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines:

Re: When will KDE4 get a desktop like in KDE3.x ?

2008-10-21 Thread BRUCE STANLEY
--- On Tue, 10/21/08, Marko Vojinovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Marko Vojinovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: When will KDE4 get a desktop like in KDE3.x ? To: fedora-list@redhat.com Date: Tuesday, October 21, 2008, 10:12 AM On Monday 20 October 2008 23:50, Linuxguy123 wrote: Why

Re: When will KDE4 get a desktop like in KDE3.x ?

2008-10-21 Thread Marko Vojinovic
On Tuesday 21 October 2008 21:19, BRUCE STANLEY wrote: --- On Tue, 10/21/08, Marko Vojinovic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It could be argued that files and icons do not belong on the desktop, but rather in home directory. It could also be argued that one should use a file manager rather

Re: When will KDE4 get a desktop like in KDE3.x ?

2008-10-21 Thread Craig White
On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 14:19 -0700, BRUCE STANLEY wrote: It could also be argued that this philosophy of yours is in direct conflict with the whole spirit and intent of the Linux environment in the first place. Linux and it's environments were created to give users the freedom to use and

Re: When will KDE4 get a desktop like in KDE3.x ?

2008-10-21 Thread Kevin Kofler
Linuxguy123 linuxguy123 at gmail.com writes: Then we have a problem, don't we. We have this group of people called users that need these boring, existing features. I've been using Linux since Redhat 8. *NOTHING* that has happened since then has ever rocked my expectations of Linux as

Re: When will KDE4 get a desktop like in KDE3.x ?

2008-10-21 Thread Kevin Kofler
Fred Silsbee fredsilsbee at yahoo.com writes: other than hide a panel, what is missing There will be a kdebase-workspace-4.1.2-6.fc9 in updates-testing soon (it's already queued, just waiting for the next push) which adds panel autohiding. Kevin Kofler -- fedora-list mailing list

Re: When will KDE4 get a desktop like in KDE3.x ?

2008-10-21 Thread Kevin Kofler
kwhiskerz kwhiskerz at gmail.com writes: Auto-hide is back!!! I just discovered it under panel properties/more settings. Only if you're using Rawhide (or the F9 build directly from Koji). The F9 build (kdebase-workspace-4.1.2-6.fc9) will hit updates-testing shortly. WARNING: I can't repeat

Re: When will KDE4 get a desktop like in KDE3.x ?

2008-10-21 Thread Kevin Kofler
Linuxguy123 linuxguy123 at gmail.com writes: When will KDE4 get a desktop like in KDE3.x ? In KDE 4.2. KDE 4.2 supports (well, will support, but the prereleases already support it) setting the folder view applet as the desktop instead of the standard Plasma desktop, which effectively provides

Re: When will KDE4 get a desktop like in KDE3.x ?

2008-10-21 Thread Craig White
On Wed, 2008-10-22 at 01:32 +, Kevin Kofler wrote: Linuxguy123 linuxguy123 at gmail.com writes: Then we have a problem, don't we. We have this group of people called users that need these boring, existing features. I've been using Linux since Redhat 8. *NOTHING* that has

When will KDE4 get a desktop like in KDE3.x ?

2008-10-20 Thread Linuxguy123
Here is a comment from a recent KDE4.2 review: The Desktop Plasma has most goals listed for inclusion in KDE4.2, followed closely by KWin. Currently Plasma behaves somewhat unstable and can crash while managing the

Re: When will KDE4 get a desktop like in KDE3.x ?

2008-10-20 Thread Chris Snook
Linuxguy123 wrote: Here is a comment from a recent KDE4.2 review: The Desktop Plasma has most goals listed for inclusion in KDE4.2, followed closely by KWin. Currently Plasma behaves somewhat unstable and can crash