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Pinnerite
Nov 22, 2011, 5:07:18 AM11/22/11
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I never seem to master the placement of items on the task bar. Right now I
have the digital clock sitting in the middle and nothing I do will move it
to the right. I seem to have managed to get the other regular right hand
items away from the left where I had managed to bundle them but that is as
far as I can get.
I find the 'help' pretty disappointing in this regard.
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PCLinuxOS release 2011 (PCLinuxOS) for x86_64
Kernel 2.6.38.8-pclos3
KDE version 4.6.5
Running on an AMD 4-core processor
have the digital clock sitting in the middle and nothing I do will move it
to the right. I seem to have managed to get the other regular right hand
items away from the left where I had managed to bundle them but that is as
far as I can get.
I find the 'help' pretty disappointing in this regard.
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PCLinuxOS release 2011 (PCLinuxOS) for x86_64
Kernel 2.6.38.8-pclos3
KDE version 4.6.5
Running on an AMD 4-core processor
J.O. Aho
Nov 22, 2011, 12:03:47 PM11/22/11
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Pinnerite wrote:
> I never seem to master the placement of items on the task bar. Right now I
> have the digital clock sitting in the middle and nothing I do will move it
> to the right. I seem to have managed to get the other regular right hand
> items away from the left where I had managed to bundle them but that is as
> far as I can get.
>
> I find the 'help' pretty disappointing in this regard.
>
Which version of KDE? There was huge issues with placements in early KDE4
> I never seem to master the placement of items on the task bar. Right now I
> have the digital clock sitting in the middle and nothing I do will move it
> to the right. I seem to have managed to get the other regular right hand
> items away from the left where I had managed to bundle them but that is as
> far as I can get.
>
> I find the 'help' pretty disappointing in this regard.
>
versions.
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//Aho
Pinnerite
Nov 23, 2011, 5:35:11 PM11/23/11
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J.O. Aho
Nov 24, 2011, 1:51:43 AM11/24/11
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Pinnerite wrote:
> J.O. Aho wrote:
>
>> Pinnerite wrote:
>>> I never seem to master the placement of items on the task bar. Right now
>>> I have the digital clock sitting in the middle and nothing I do will move
>>> it to the right. I seem to have managed to get the other regular right
>>> hand items away from the left where I had managed to bundle them but that
>>> is as far as I can get.
>>>
>>> I find the 'help' pretty disappointing in this regard.
>>>
>>
>> Which version of KDE? There was huge issues with placements in early KDE4
>> versions.
>>
>
> KDE version 4.6.5
> J.O. Aho wrote:
>
>> Pinnerite wrote:
>>> I never seem to master the placement of items on the task bar. Right now
>>> I have the digital clock sitting in the middle and nothing I do will move
>>> it to the right. I seem to have managed to get the other regular right
>>> hand items away from the left where I had managed to bundle them but that
>>> is as far as I can get.
>>>
>>> I find the 'help' pretty disappointing in this regard.
>>>
>>
>> Which version of KDE? There was huge issues with placements in early KDE4
>> versions.
>>
>
>
You need to place out spacers and size them accordingly to push things out.
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//Aho
Pinnerite
Nov 24, 2011, 6:14:54 AM11/24/11
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placement mechanism could do with an overhaul. It is relatively user-hostile
and doesn't present new Linux user's with an easy to use environment.
Compare it with macbuntu which really does make the desktop look and behave
with the smoothness of a Mac. It is such a shame because most idiosyncracies
seem to have been ironed out of kde4.
Regards, Alan
J.O. Aho
Nov 24, 2011, 11:59:38 AM11/24/11
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Pinnerite wrote:
> J.O. Aho wrote:
>
>> Pinnerite wrote:
>>> J.O. Aho wrote:
>>>
>>>> Pinnerite wrote:
>>>>> I never seem to master the placement of items on the task bar. Right
>>>>> now I have the digital clock sitting in the middle and nothing I do
>>>>> will move it to the right. I seem to have managed to get the other
>>>>> regular right hand items away from the left where I had managed to
>>>>> bundle them but that is as far as I can get.
>>>>>
>>>>> I find the 'help' pretty disappointing in this regard.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Which version of KDE? There was huge issues with placements in early
>>>> KDE4 versions.
>>>>
>>>
>>> KDE version 4.6.5
>>>
>>
>> You need to place out spacers and size them accordingly to push things
>> out.
>>
>
> I tried that tentatively but it seemed to make things worse. I think the
> placement mechanism could do with an overhaul. It is relatively user-hostile
> and doesn't present new Linux user's with an easy to use environment.
> Compare it with macbuntu which really does make the desktop look and behave
> with the smoothness of a Mac. It is such a shame because most idiosyncracies
> seem to have been ironed out of kde4.
I agree, it was better in KDE3, but for some reason they decided to have
> J.O. Aho wrote:
>
>> Pinnerite wrote:
>>> J.O. Aho wrote:
>>>
>>>> Pinnerite wrote:
>>>>> I never seem to master the placement of items on the task bar. Right
>>>>> now I have the digital clock sitting in the middle and nothing I do
>>>>> will move it to the right. I seem to have managed to get the other
>>>>> regular right hand items away from the left where I had managed to
>>>>> bundle them but that is as far as I can get.
>>>>>
>>>>> I find the 'help' pretty disappointing in this regard.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Which version of KDE? There was huge issues with placements in early
>>>> KDE4 versions.
>>>>
>>>
>>> KDE version 4.6.5
>>>
>>
>> You need to place out spacers and size them accordingly to push things
>> out.
>>
>
> I tried that tentatively but it seemed to make things worse. I think the
> placement mechanism could do with an overhaul. It is relatively user-hostile
> and doesn't present new Linux user's with an easy to use environment.
> Compare it with macbuntu which really does make the desktop look and behave
> with the smoothness of a Mac. It is such a shame because most idiosyncracies
> seem to have been ironed out of kde4.
spacers instead of positions for applets, think when I first installed KDE4,
they didn't have the spacers at all.
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//Aho
jo...@wexfordpress.com
Nov 25, 2011, 5:35:13 PM11/25/11
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KDE3. IMO KDE4 has a truly
difficult interface. I also dumped Kmail because of the spurious
error messages at startup and installed Claws-Mail.
The search function is not as good as Kmail but in other respects it
is comparable and doesn't give me all those crazy Akonadi messages.
John Culleton
J.O. Aho
Nov 26, 2011, 4:35:16 AM11/26/11
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jo...@wexfordpress.com wrote:
> Consider also using XFCE. It resembles KDE3 more than KDE4 resembles
> KDE3.
Sadly they depend on gtk2, which makes them to follow the "standards" set by
> Consider also using XFCE. It resembles KDE3 more than KDE4 resembles
> KDE3.
the gnome2/3 developers, so XFCE falls completely out of my list of any
possible replacement for KDE.
The only alternative I do have is fall back to ctwm, but it's not something
for those who likes fancy things.
> I also dumped Kmail because of the spurious
> error messages at startup and installed Claws-Mail.
hard user of Mozilla Suit (later renamed to SeaMonkey), but I seldom use a
mail client with a GUI, I tend to use pine. At work I do use thunderbird
together with davmail (sadly the company only supports a ms-only mail
environment).
> The search function is not as good as Kmail but in other respects it
> is comparable and doesn't give me all those crazy Akonadi messages.
disabled the nepomuk (sadly I get messages at login that it's not enabled).
Now I'm in the thought of switching Akonadi to use sqlite instead of mysql,
but have other things I have higher priority as moving stuff to a new server.
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//Aho
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