KDE panel , how to remove widgets?

[wa5qjh]

How do I remove some of the widgets and re-order placement of the ones I
keep. It's very easy to add widgets and some get added for you. but of
late they've re-ordered, some have re-sized, and some now overlap each
other.
How do I get rid of a few of them?


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[Blurgh]

On Fri, 22 Jul 2016 18:09:37 +0800
wa5qjh <wa5...@xmission.com> wrote:

> How do I remove some of the widgets and re-order placement of the ones I
> keep. It's very easy to add widgets and some get added for you. but of
> late they've re-ordered, some have re-sized, and some now overlap each
> other.
> How do I get rid of a few of them?
>
>

Right-click on the panel in an empty area and choose panel options->panel
settings

Then when you float your cursor over an icon, it gives you an option to remove
it, or left-click on it and move it to where you wish on the panel.

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[Matthias Apitz]

On Friday, 22 July 2016 17:13:55 CEST, Blurgh
<iron_order...@openmailbox.org> wrote:
> ...

>
> Right-click on the panel in an empty area and choose panel options->panel
> settings
>
> Then when you float your cursor over an icon, it gives you an
> option to remove
> it, or left-click on it and move it to where you wish on the panel.

Do you (or someone) knows how to tweak the KDE4 pannel, desktop app icons,
features ... by editing config files or using command line stuff? This
would it make more easier to setup your desktop after new installation.

Thx

matthias




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Matthias Apitz writes:

> Do you (or someone) knows how to tweak the KDE4 pannel, desktop app icons,
> features ... by editing config files or using command line stuff? This
> would it make more easier to setup your desktop after new installation.

There is no such thing. KDE is configured entirely through graphical
interfaces. Virtually no KDE applications have command-line options, and
I don't recall ever seeing a KDE applications with a man page.

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[Dutch Ingraham]

On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 01:54:43PM -0500, Brandon J. Wandersee wrote:
>
> :: Brandon J. Wandersee
> :: brandon....@gmail.com
> :: --------------------------------------------------
> :: 'The best design is as little design as possible.'
> :: --- Dieter Rams ----------------------------------
> Matthias Apitz writes:
>
> > Do you (or someone) knows how to tweak the KDE4 pannel, desktop app icons,
> > features ... by editing config files or using command line stuff? This
> > would it make more easier to setup your desktop after new installation.
>
> There is no such thing. KDE is configured entirely through graphical
> interfaces. Virtually no KDE applications have command-line options, and
> I don't recall ever seeing a KDE applications with a man page.

It may be different on freebsd, but on my linux installation I have the
following manpages that have "kde" in the name:

~ $ man -k kde
amor (6) - A KDE creature for your desktop
ark (1) - KDE archiving tool
blkdeactivate (8) - utility to deactivate block devices
blockdev (8) - call block device ioctls from the command line
checkXML (1) - An XML lint tool for KDE DocBook XML documents.
checkXML5 (1) - An XML lint tool for KDE DocBook XML documents.
fixincludes (1) - Reduce the number of #includes in KDE source
files
kalzium (1) - A KDE based chemistry teaching tool
kate (1) - Advanced text editor for KDE
kconfig_compiler (1) - KDE configuration compiler
kcookiejar4 (8) - KDE HTTP cookie daemon
kcookiejar5 (8) - Command line interface to the KDE HTTP cookie
daemon
kde4-config (1) - Prints KDE installation paths
kded4 (8) - KDE daemon - triggers Sycoca database updates
when needed.
kded5 (8) - KDE daemon - triggers Sycoca database updates
when needed.
kdeinit4 (8) - KDE process launcher.
kdeinit5 (8) - Launcher for applications built with kdeinit
support, and for KIO slaves.
kdenlive (1) - An open source non-linear video editor.
kdenlive_render (1) - Render program for Kdenlive.
kdeoptions (7) - Common commandline options for all applications
based on the KDE libraries
kdestroy (1) - destroy Kerberos tickets
kdesu (1) - Runs a program with elevated privileges
kf5kross (1) - KDE application to run kross scripts.
kf5options (7) - Common commandline options for all applications
based on KDE Frameworks 5
kfind (1) - file find utility for KDE
khangman (6) - The classical hangman game for KDE
kig (1) - an interactive geometry program by KDE
kjs (1) - KDE ECMAScript compatible interpreter
kjs5 (1) - KDE ECMAScript compatible interpreter
kjscmd (1) - KDE KJSEmbed interpreter
kross (1) - KDE application to run kross scripts.
ksshaskpass (1) - prompts a user for a passphrase using KDE
ktouch (1) - a typing tutor for KDE
kwallet-query (1) - KDE Wallet command-line manipulation tool
makekdewidgets (1) - Builds Qt(TM) widget plugins from an ini style
description file.
meinproc4 (8) - KDE translator for XML
meinproc5 (8) - KDE translator for XML

Further, if you are using the XDG-style of configuration files, I have
the following in ~/.config (and I didn't parse the directory for all
that may apply):

-rw------- 1 dutch dutch 101 Jul 17 08:26 gwenviewrc
-rw------- 1 dutch dutch 107 Jul 11 16:49 kactivitymanagerd-switcher
-rw------- 1 dutch dutch 219 Nov 28 2015 kactivitymanagerdrc
-rw------- 1 dutch dutch 143 Nov 28 2015 kalarmrc
-rw------- 1 dutch dutch 18 Apr 14 20:35 kalgebrarc
-rw------- 1 dutch dutch 3068 Jul 21 21:06 katemetainfos
-rw------- 1 dutch dutch 2263 Jul 19 14:03 katepartrc
-rw------- 1 dutch dutch 1878 Jul 21 21:01 katerc
-rw------- 1 dutch dutch 194 Jul 19 14:02 kateschemarc
-rw------- 1 dutch dutch 7993 Apr 21 13:45 katesyntaxhighlightingrc
-rw------- 1 dutch dutch 419 Nov 28 2015 katevirc
-rw------- 1 dutch dutch 33 Dec 13 2015 kcalcrc
-rw------- 1 dutch dutch 277 Dec 16 2015 kcharselectrc
-rw------- 1 dutch dutch 113 Jul 11 16:52 kcminputrc
-rw------- 1 dutch dutch 2140 Jul 11 16:49 kconf_updaterc
drwxr-xr-x 2 dutch dutch 4096 Jul 11 16:50 kde.org
-rw------- 1 dutch dutch 83 Apr 13 06:20 kdebugrc
-rw------- 1 dutch dutch 803 Apr 12 09:09 kded5rc
-rw------- 1 dutch dutch 1113 Jul 2 18:33 kded_device_automounterrc
-rw-r--r-- 1 dutch dutch 5968 Jul 21 21:01 kdeglobals
-rw------- 1 dutch dutch 73 Apr 13 06:20 kfontinstuirc
-rw------- 1 dutch dutch 26 Mar 2 19:34 kgammarc
-rw------- 1 dutch dutch 12202 Jul 11 18:48 kglobalshortcutsrc
-rw------- 1 dutch dutch 31936 Jul 11 16:49 khotkeysrc
-rw------- 1 dutch dutch 472 Dec 10 2015 kickoffrc
-rw------- 1 dutch dutch 104 Mar 6 07:04 kiorc
-rw------- 1 dutch dutch 149 Nov 28 2015 klaunchrc
-rw------- 1 dutch dutch 27259 Dec 20 2015 kmail2rc
-rw------- 1 dutch dutch 74 Nov 28 2015 kmixrc
-rw------- 1 dutch dutch 586 Jul 2 16:28 komparerc
-rw------- 1 dutch dutch 532 Jul 18 09:58 konsolerc
-rw------- 1 dutch dutch 88 Jul 11 18:48 korgacrc
-rw------- 1 dutch dutch 454 Jul 11 18:48 krunnerrc
-rw------- 1 dutch dutch 142 Jul 11 16:50 kscreenlockerrc
-rw------- 1 dutch dutch 86 Nov 28 2015 kscreensaverrc
-rw------- 1 dutch dutch 502 Jul 2 13:32 kservicemenurc
-rw------- 1 dutch dutch 868 Dec 9 2015 ksmserverrc
-rw------- 1 dutch dutch 61 Jul 11 16:50 ksplashrc
-rw------- 1 dutch dutch 1426 Apr 14 20:39 kstarsrc
-rw------- 1 dutch dutch 498 Mar 5 20:09 ksysguardrc
-rw------- 1 root root 257 Jul 2 16:33 ksystemlogrc
-rw------- 1 dutch dutch 102 Nov 28 2015 ktimezonedrc
-rw------- 1 dutch dutch 225 Mar 4 06:03 kwalletrc
-rw------- 1 dutch dutch 3212 Jul 11 16:49 kwinrc
-rw------- 1 dutch dutch 18 Jul 11 18:48 kwinrulesrc
-rw------- 1 dutch dutch 603 Feb 27 18:32 kwriterc
...
-rw-r--r-- 1 dutch dutch 53 Dec 16 2015 plasma-localerc
drwxr-xr-x 4 dutch dutch 4096 Nov 28 2015 plasma-workspace
-rw------- 1 dutch dutch 25 Jul 11 16:50 plasmarc
-rw------- 1 dutch dutch 550 Jul 3 01:23 plasmashellrc


Maybe I'm just misunderstanding the response.

[Brandon J. Wandersee]

Dutch Ingraham writes:

> On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 01:54:43PM -0500, Brandon J. Wandersee wrote:
>>
>> :: Brandon J. Wandersee
>> :: brandon....@gmail.com
>> :: --------------------------------------------------
>> :: 'The best design is as little design as possible.'
>> :: --- Dieter Rams ----------------------------------
>> Matthias Apitz writes:
>>
>> > Do you (or someone) knows how to tweak the KDE4 pannel, desktop app icons,
>> > features ... by editing config files or using command line stuff? This
>> > would it make more easier to setup your desktop after new installation.
>>
>> There is no such thing. KDE is configured entirely through graphical
>> interfaces. Virtually no KDE applications have command-line options, and
>> I don't recall ever seeing a KDE applications with a man page.
>
>
> It may be different on freebsd, but on my linux installation I have the
> following manpages that have "kde" in the name:
>

Sorry, I meant Plasma and its different interface components---things
like panels, KRunner, etc. Although I seem to recall that some major
applications like Konsole don't have man pages either.

I'm sure there are various text configuration files for KDE applications
and components---I shouldn't say otherwise---but then there are dozens
of components that make up the basic KDE desktop, as well, and KDE is
insanely customizable. The only central configuration is the graphical
"System Settings" interface, and trying to configure things like desktop
panel and menu contents, Dolphin panel arrangements, global keybindings,
or widget placement by hand would be a infeasible.

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:: --------------------------------------------------
:: 'The best design is as little design as possible.'
:: --- Dieter Rams ----------------------------------

[wa5qjh]

Thanks all who replied. much appreciated.
turns out unlocking the panel and moving the cursor over an icon had
very little effect, tho I was able to kill off a few icons that way.
And there was no offer or ability to delete nor move an icon.
I found out that my panel bar was unlocked all this time which had
premitted things to get corrupted. I had left it unlocked to facilitate
adding widgets. guess that got out of hand. it's locked now.
The way I had the best luck was to add another panel, specifically a
'default' panel which went to the top of my screen. I then deleted my
original panel,followed by creating a third panel with the menus now at
the top, followed by deleting the panel at the top. I also just checked
and on my 10.3 system I was not able to either move nor delete any of
the icons in the manner that has been suggested here.
I also had to unlock the panel to resize it a little bit.
Seems a long way to go but the add default panel option really worked
good. I was then able to populate the new panel with a few items like
konsole, thrunderbird, and skype then lock it. seems crude but it
worked great for me so I wanted to pass the info back.

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