Some questions regarding kde4

> some questions:
> (1) Somehow my desktop lost it's ability to display or store icons.
> Did I break something? And if, what?

If you are referring to the change from kde3 to kde4: There has been a
paradigm shift!

In kde3 as a windows-like desktop environment, placing something in the
Desktop directory, an icon can appear on the screen "desktop". Drag an email
attachment to the desktop, get an icon, and the file in the Desktop directory.
Creating an icon from the desktop GUI produces a file.desktop in the Desktop
directory. Intuitively obvious and very familiar. The boss can place work on
an employee's desktop by simply saving a file in the Desktop directory. No
more.

Kde4 is divorced from the Desktop folder. You do not even need one. Icons are
entries to one rc file, and may or may not refer to real files stored
somewhere. No longer Windows-like or familiar. And no longer intuitive.

OK, you can drag a file to the desktop and get an icon referencing it. An
email attachment is in some volatile temp location so one can no longer drag
that to the desktop (It used to let you do it and the icon referenced air).

I still have .desktop files in my Desktop directory. I can drag those to the
desktop and have the layout I had in kde3. They do not act quite the same
right now but they are there.


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On Saturday 04 October 2008 01:41:23 Alejandro Exojo wrote:
> El Viernes, 3 de Octubre de 2008, Dietz Pröpper escribió:
> > Hi,
> >
> > some questions:
> > (1) Somehow my desktop lost it's ability to display or store icons.
> > Did I break something? And if, what?
>
> Things changed a little bit in KDE 4.1. In KDE 3 the desktop showed the
> contents of one directory ("~/Desktop" by default, or whatever you
> configured in the control center). In KDE 4.1, you have to add an applet
> called Folder View:
>
> http://techbase.kde.org/Projects/Plasma/FAQ#I_heard_there_are_no_more_icons
>_on_the_desktop_in_KDE_4.1...

Yuk. Has the look and feel of those superkaramba transparent screen-wasters
(OK, a matter of taste). The folder-view plasmoid is good if only a few items
are in the folder and no subfolders Otherwise, I prefer to reference folders
with a simple icon (which you can still do).


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