On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 17:29 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Friday 18 July 2008 17:11:43 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > > > Be careful what you ask for Anne :-) Here are some (using 4.0.98 at the > > moment): > > > > 1) How do I resize the Desktop plasmoid? It has no handles. > > > AIUI, that is a 4.1 feature. I'm pretty certain I've read that that's fixed > in 4.1. > > > 2) How do I rearrange stuff in the Panel? There used to be a gawd-awful > > "start move/end move" thing on the panel menu in 4.0 but at least it > > worked. Now it's gone. > > > I'm not using Fedora at this moment, so I can't check, but it was there last > week. However, I understand that that was a Fedora work-around. I *think* > it's fixed in 4.1. Meanwhile, the recommended method in 4.0 is to delete > icons from the panel and add them again in the order you want them. > > > 3) Why is the Kmix icon in minimized state (i.e. in the panel) different > > from its normal icon? This last could be my config as I just carried it > > over from 3.5, but I don't see any way to change it. > > > Actually, kmix is reluctant to show at all on mine :-) Seriously, though, > I've wondered about that myself. The tiny icons that sit in two rows seem to > be the things that load at startup, like klipper, wifi-status-indicator, > korgac, and so on. Do you find the same? There seem to be two kinds: those that are just there "because", such as Kmix, NM etc., and others that one puts there through the Autostart dialogue. In my case I only added Ktorrent to this last, nevertheless I have Kmix, Pidgin, NM, Amarok, Ksensors, Kpowersave (?) and the keyboard switcher thingy. I'm sure I did add these all at some point in my 3.5 days, but I no longer know where to change them. > I'll try to find the answer to that one. > > > 4) Why does my desktop always start up as 1024x768 when I have a > > landscape LCD? > > ?? 1024x768 is landscape, isn't it? No, it's 4x3 or a standard "square TV" monitor. Landscape is 16x9. > > I've set it correctly using the Display dialogue, but it > > doesn't remember its state. However as soon as I click on the Display > > setting it *immediately* corrects itself to 1440x900 without me touching > > anything else (except that I now have to resize some windows, not to > > mention the panel which doesn't adjust itself). I reported a version of > > this to BZ a while back but I need to update it. > > > I don't think this is KDE-related at all. I think it's more concerned with > the new way that X is being served - you know, not reading xorg.conf if it > can get away without it. Just my guess, though. Maybe. > > I'm sure I can think of more but these are the most annoying. Luckily > > nothing is a showstopper. > > > Yes, there are many small annoyances in 4.0, and there will still be some, > though nowhere like as many, in 4.1, but, as you say, they are not > show-stoppers. > > I was tempted to revert to the old ways, like using the Classic Menu, but > stuck it out so that I could give support. I'm glad I did, as I find I have > adapted my working practices almost without noticing, and I really like some > of the changes. > > In passing, it may interest you to know that some of the developments were > held up because they depend on Qt4, and Qt4 is still very much in > development. As the boundaries are being pushed new needs are being > discovered, and fixed as fast as devs can work. Thanks Anne. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
