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Please, This Is NOT a Flame...
by Xanadu on Friday 23/May/2008, @11:19

Hey!

OK, I have to...

I've been using KDE since the pre-1.0 days (whatever shipped with RH-5.0, IIRC). I love what power and control KDE has given to me all these years.

...
...

Can I have my Desktop back? Please?

I fully respect the decision to do Something Different with the desktop, but can I have my Good Ol' Desktop back?

I was playing with the OpenSuSE KDE 4.0.4 Live CD and was drop-jawed. KDE4 is one of the most amazing and powerful things I think I've even seen my machine do. Hell ANY machine of mine, for that matter. I *DO* like the idea of having a "Desktop" a "Launch Pad", but I just want my Desktop back.

Is there a way to move it back to a 3.5.* style desktop? I know there's still the ~/Desktop where I can still put the few things I like having on my Desktop, but I can't *interact* with the Desktop the way I want to / am used to.

Is there a plugin, plasmoid, config setting, that gives me the Old Boring Desktop back?

(I use Gentoo. As you read above, Gentoo is not really making it easy to use KDE4 < 4.1. I (frankly) don't want to go through all the BS to get KDE4 on my machines if I can't really use it the way I want to (yet)).

Thanx.
M.

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Re: Please, This Is NOT a Flame...
by jospoortvliet on Friday 23/May/2008, @11:38

Read Aseigo's blog...

http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2008/05/no-more-desktop-icons-in-41.html

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Re: Please, This Is NOT a Flame...
by Xanadu on Friday 23/May/2008, @14:24

Thank you for the link.

Ya know, I've read through that exact (I think) page a couple times, and never saw this part:

"That last bit is important: it means that you can have an Old Skool(tm) desktop with an icon mess if that's what you really, really want."

And he went on to say that "support" for the Old Way will improve as KDE4 gets more polished.

Good News to me!

Again, thanx for the link. I'll shut up now... :-)

M.

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Re: Please, This Is NOT a Flame...
by Stefan Majewsky on Saturday 24/May/2008, @02:16

Chani said in her blog that the folder view can be used as a containment. Is that right? And if yes, does this containment support a background image? If these requirements are met there is a functionally equal replacement for kdesktop.

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Re: Please, This Is NOT a Flame...
by Dog on Sunday 25/May/2008, @13:38

from link above:

aseigo:
"In 4.2 we'll be separating context menus and background rendering from containments so that those functionalities can be easily shared; so while in 4.1 you can set the folder view as your desktop containment ... it's not going to be as pretty as it will be in 4.2. In 4.2 it will be completely seamless, whereas right now you'll get a "nice" wallpaper based on the applet background svg. Call it the Model T wallpaper: any colour you want, as long as it's the applet background ;)"

short: in 4.1 folders on desktop only on black/one-color background ;]

PS. I love idea ofviewing different folders on desktop. I wanted it for years. Thx!

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