Re: kde4: restore deleted desktop containment
In loom.20090612t045157-...@post.gmane.org, DZ wrote: Jeff Chimene jchimene at gmail.com writes: Andrei Popescu wrote: Jeff Chimene wrote: While futzing w/ KDE 4, I deleted the desktop containment. How do I restore the desktop containment? Google is not very revealing on this topic. What's do you mean by 'containment'? One would have to ask the KDE wizards. That's what it's called. Right-click in desktop area; choose Appearance Settings. Then, under Desktop Activity - Type - Desktop. Next, right-click on desktop area again; choose Add Widgets. Add Folder View. In the newly appeared Folder Area, right-click Under Folder View Settings, choose Show the Desktop folder If these steps work for you, then you aren't talking about a containment. You are talking about a widget or a plasmoid. A containment is a space in which widgets are located. The desktop is one, each panel is another. Under Appearance Settings, you can choose the type of containment the desktop exposes by choosing the Desktop Activity - Type. Just like widget is preferred to plasmoid is user documentation, I believe activity is preferred to containment. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: Re: kde4: restore deleted desktop containment
On 12/23/-28158 12:59 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Inloom.20090612t045157-...@post.gmane.org, DZ wrote: Jeff Chimenejchimeneat gmail.com writes: Andrei Popescu wrote: Jeff Chimene wrote: While futzing w/ KDE 4, I deleted the desktop containment. How do I restore the desktop containment? Google is not very revealing on this topic. What's do you mean by 'containment'? One would have to ask the KDE wizards. That's what it's called. Right-click in desktop area; choose Appearance Settings. Then, under Desktop Activity - Type - Desktop. Next, right-click on desktop area again; choose Add Widgets. Add Folder View. In the newly appeared Folder Area, right-click Under Folder View Settings, choose Show the Desktop folder If these steps work for you, then you aren't talking about a containment. You are talking about a widget or a plasmoid. Boyd, Do you run KDE 4? If you do, then please follow these oh-so-easy steps: 1. Right mouseclick on the desktop 2. Select Appearance Settings 3. Select the Type drop-down menu in the Desktop Activity group 4. Note the captions for each of the two selections 5. Post the caption for Desktop Better yet, grab a screenshot at step 4 and post it to the list Did you answer the original question when I posted it a few weeks ago? Sure you did! I knew you could! Thanks again to the kind person who finally answered the question. To you, Boyd, thanks for being the typical Debianite -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: kde4: restore deleted desktop containment
In 4a32e445.5060...@gmail.com, Jeff Chimene wrote: On 12/23/-28158 12:59 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: Inloom.20090612t045157-...@post.gmane.org, DZ wrote: Jeff Chimenejchimeneat gmail.com writes: Andrei Popescu wrote: Jeff Chimene wrote: While futzing w/ KDE 4, I deleted the desktop containment. How do I restore the desktop containment? Google is not very revealing on this topic. What's do you mean by 'containment'? One would have to ask the KDE wizards. That's what it's called. Right-click in desktop area; choose Appearance Settings. Then, under Desktop Activity - Type - Desktop. Didn't see/read/process this line, just the ones under it. Next, right-click on desktop area again; choose Add Widgets. Add Folder View. In the newly appeared Folder Area, right-click Under Folder View Settings, choose Show the Desktop folder These lines only affect widgets. They don't have anything to do with containments or activity types. If these steps work for you, then you aren't talking about a containment. You are talking about a widget or a plasmoid. Do you run KDE 4? Yes. If you do, then please follow these oh-so-easy steps: 1. Right mouseclick on the desktop 2. Select Appearance Settings 3. Select the Type drop-down menu in the Desktop Activity group 4. Note the captions for each of the two selections 5. Post the caption for Desktop Better yet, grab a screenshot at step 4 and post it to the list This caption does use the term containment. That doesn't mean containment is the correct term, just the current one being used. Debian packages also used the term plasmoid for quite a while in experimental. Often developers or translators can make these mistakes when there are two names for the same thing. (I'm not sure why the KDE project would use two names for the same thing -- it doesn't make much sense.) Did you answer the original question when I posted it a few weeks ago? Sure you did! I knew you could! I don't see how. I assumed by deleted you meant that it was no longer in the drop-down, not that you had changed your current activity type to a different activity type. If something is missing from the drop-down, I don't have the know-how to fix it since I've never run into that problem. Perhaps I could have answered your question if it were phrased differently, but I don't have time to ask every poster for clarification. I don't even have time to respond to all the posters whose questions I can answer. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: kde4: restore deleted desktop containment
In 3...@971427812.6110353.17848.14176.10646, DZ wrote: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: Jeff Chimene wrote: Did you answer the original question when I posted it a few weeks ago? Sure you did! I knew you could! Perhaps I could have answered your question if it were phrased differently, but I don't have time to ask every poster for clarification. I think that the question was phrased quite well. Sorry, I didn't it wasn't my intent to lay any blame on the OP. I'm just saying I didn't understand it the same way he meant it, and I didn't have the time or inclination to clarify my understanding. My fault entirely. I hope I can help in the future. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. b...@iguanasuicide.net ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy `-'(. .)`-' http://iguanasuicide.net/\_/ signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.
Re: kde4: restore deleted desktop containment
Jeff Chimene jchimene at gmail.com writes: Andrei Popescu wrote: Jeff Chimene wrote: While futzing w/ KDE 4, I deleted the desktop containment. How do I restore the desktop containment? Google is not very revealing on this topic. What's do you mean by 'containment'? One would have to ask the KDE wizards. That's what it's called. Right-click in desktop area; choose Appearance Settings. Then, under Desktop Activity - Type - Desktop. Next, right-click on desktop area again; choose Add Widgets. Add Folder View. In the newly appeared Folder Area, right-click Under Folder View Settings, choose Show the Desktop folder -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: Re: kde4: restore deleted desktop containment
On 12/23/-28158 12:59 PM, Paul Scott wrote: div class=moz-text-flowed style=font-family: -moz-fixedJeff Chimene wrote: On 12/23/-28158 12:59 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Wed,20.May.09, 12:34:01, Jeff Chimene wrote: Hi, While futzing w/ KDE 4, I deleted the desktop containment. How do I restore the desktop containment? Google is not very revealing on this topic. What's do you mean by 'containment'? One would have to ask the KDE wizards. That's what it's called. Assuming that one starts at the standard kde4 desktop: o Right-click on the desktop o Select appearance settings o Select desktop in desktop activity; the description for which is default desktop containment. Hi Jeff, I get this far and don't see any pop out menu. Sorry, I omitted the last step: mouseover the (now visible) desktop window; which event should cause the pop-out action. I may be wrong in the actions required to raise the pop-out window: the window isn't visible, natch. After clicking X on the containment's pop-out menu, the containment disappears. I was able to restore the default desktop environment by renaming .kde to .kde-save. That sounds similar to what I had to do when I did the update to KDE 4.2 at the same time as the upgrade to X 7.4 and all kinds of things broke. To be fair: the Debianization of KDE4.4 seems well-thought-out, But for certain settings that don't have an analog in KDE4 (textured wallpaper?), the migration to KDE4 from KDE3 was smooth. I didn't realize the depth of the migration until after renaming the .kde directory, some migrated properties I took for granted were (obviously) lost. Paul Scott Needless to say, this is a bit like reinstall windows to remove all virii /div -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: kde4: restore deleted desktop containment
On Wed,20.May.09, 12:34:01, Jeff Chimene wrote: Hi, While futzing w/ KDE 4, I deleted the desktop containment. How do I restore the desktop containment? Google is not very revealing on this topic. What's do you mean by 'containment'? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Containment_(disambiguation) Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: Digital signature
Re: kde4: restore deleted desktop containment
On 12/23/-28158 12:59 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Wed,20.May.09, 12:34:01, Jeff Chimene wrote: Hi, While futzing w/ KDE 4, I deleted the desktop containment. How do I restore the desktop containment? Google is not very revealing on this topic. What's do you mean by 'containment'? One would have to ask the KDE wizards. That's what it's called. Assuming that one starts at the standard kde4 desktop: o Right-click on the desktop o Select appearance settings o Select desktop in desktop activity; the description for which is default desktop containment. After clicking X on the containment's pop-out menu, the containment disappears. I was able to restore the default desktop environment by renaming .kde to .kde-save. Needless to say, this is a bit like reinstall windows to remove all virii -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Re: kde4: restore deleted desktop containment
Jeff Chimene wrote: On 12/23/-28158 12:59 PM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Wed,20.May.09, 12:34:01, Jeff Chimene wrote: Hi, While futzing w/ KDE 4, I deleted the desktop containment. How do I restore the desktop containment? Google is not very revealing on this topic. What's do you mean by 'containment'? One would have to ask the KDE wizards. That's what it's called. Assuming that one starts at the standard kde4 desktop: o Right-click on the desktop o Select appearance settings o Select desktop in desktop activity; the description for which is default desktop containment. Hi Jeff, I get this far and don't see any pop out menu. After clicking X on the containment's pop-out menu, the containment disappears. I was able to restore the default desktop environment by renaming .kde to .kde-save. That sounds similar to what I had to do when I did the update to KDE 4.2 at the same time as the upgrade to X 7.4 and all kinds of things broke. Paul Scott Needless to say, this is a bit like reinstall windows to remove all virii -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
