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Upset with KDE 4.0
by LEANG Chumsoben on Monday 21/Jan/2008, @07:50

I have been waiting for KDE 4.0 for long time until its release recently. I then decided to install it in my openSUSE 10.3 via 1-click installation (http://en.opensuse.org/KDE4). The installation went just fine then I got a very nice desktop. I was a little surprise to see most icons on my desktop showing as question mark (mostly the default openSUSE icons). I didn't blame that, maybe Oxigen didn't offer such icons.

I then came across with another surprise. I could not switch the default K-Menu to the classic one (as seen on http://www.khmeros.info/drupal/?q=en/node/2542). Another surprise was, I could not move the icons I added to Taskbar. I expected that, there will be a "Move" menu item when I right-click on those icons (see the Dolphin icon in my screenshot below).

Another worst surprise was http://www.flickr.com/photos/37463129@N00/2209623432/. I got this mess desktop when I moved Firefox icon around (move to the bottom area) the desktop. The Firefox icon even disappeared in the taskbar (it was behind the taskbar). And I have no way to resize or move the Taskbar.

Last but not least, the Ctrl+Alt+D didn't work as my expectation either.

So now what should I suppose to do? Yeah, maybe this is related to openSUSE more than KDE.

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Re: Upset with KDE 4.0
by Bobby on Monday 21/Jan/2008, @10:21

You can delete the present Kickoff Menu (which is just a Plasmoid) then open the add widget window (right click on desktop) and drag and drop the clasical menu directly from there to the taskbar.
The taskbar and Plasma do not have all the configuration possiblities that Kicker and KDesktop had so we are kinda limited for now. The additional features will come soon though.
To get back your Firefox icon you have to use this little tool in right corner at the top to zoom out the desktop then you can move it to where it belongs and then zoom in back. I think that that will also get fixed.
I hope that I helped a bit.

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Re: Upset with KDE 4.0
by Richard Van Den Boom on Monday 21/Jan/2008, @14:06

Old menu comes with plasma extragear, I don't know if everybody thinks of installing those before complaining here.

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Re: Upset with KDE 4.0
by Bobby on Tuesday 22/Jan/2008, @00:45

I usually mention that but I forgot this time since I take it for granted.

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Re: Upset with KDE 4.0
by binner on Tuesday 22/Jan/2008, @01:17

The old menu is in kdebase-workspace actually.

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