[kde] Re: No sound in Kubuntu 11.04

2011-05-30 Thread Duncan
Marcelo Magno T. Sales posted on Sun, 29 May 2011 18:42:33 -0300 as excerpted: I've tried phonon-vlc backend for a few days and it indeed does not fail as the gstreamer one does. Well, good suggestion to try it, then. =:^) However, KDE sound events play somewhat weird with the vlc backend.

[kde] Re: How do I remove the new activity item from the desktop?

2011-05-30 Thread Duncan
J posted on Sun, 29 May 2011 17:58:01 -0400 as excerpted: How do I remove the new Activity widget from the top right of the desktop? I'm willing to hide it, but I would rather REMOVE it. My desktop is in folder view, but it still shows in plain desktop as well. I'm trying to get a very

[kde] Re: No sound in Kubuntu 11.04

2011-05-30 Thread John Woodhouse
I found that sound improved after I installed VLC and even the kmail sound notification still worked. I accepted a kde base lib update the other day. For some reason it set up hdmi on my graphics card as the default yet again and switched phonon's back end to xine and pushed the vlc one to the

[kde] Re: How do I remove the new activity item from the desktop?

2011-05-30 Thread John Woodhouse
Duncan are you effectively saying that everybody may be forced to use this cashew at some point? Sounds a bit odd as it's a sort of localised right click on the desktop - and yet more mouse miles as a result over those already judiciously added by 4. On the there hand is does reduce 2 actions

[kde] Re: How do I remove the new activity item from the desktop?

2011-05-30 Thread Felix Miata
On 2011/05/30 03:51 (GMT-0700) John Woodhouse composed: Frankly what it boils down to is I can't see the point in having a largely empty screen. Many many others can't either. I can't see the point of having any icons on the desktop. It's rare that I actually see more than a tiny fraction of

[kde] Re: How do I remove the new activity item from the desktop?

2011-05-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 4de3a208.2050...@earthlink.net, Felix Miata wrote: On 2011/05/30 03:51 (GMT-0700) John Woodhouse composed: Frankly what it boils down to is I can't see the point in having a largely empty screen. Many many others can't either. I can't see the point of having any icons on the desktop. Same

[kde] Problem with the microblogging plasmaoid

2011-05-30 Thread Kim Leyendecker
Dear list, dear Andre! Since I´m using openSUSE and KDE; I´m always getting problems with the microblogging plasmaoid. In KDE 4.6 with openSUSE 11.4, I can create it on my deskop, but when I connect to twitter, the connection is there, but my tweets aren´t on twitter after tweeting. How can I

[kde] Re: How do I remove the new activity item from the desktop?

2011-05-30 Thread Duncan
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. posted on Mon, 30 May 2011 10:49:17 -0500 as excerpted: In 4de3a208.2050...@earthlink.net, Felix Miata wrote: On 2011/05/30 03:51 (GMT-0700) John Woodhouse composed: Frankly what it boils down to is I can't see the point in having a largely empty screen. Many many others