Re: [expert] More version 7.1 problems
Norm, The .gif to .xpm conversion you speak of.. does it work equally well in all window managers? Thanks, Pj [EMAIL PROTECTED] At 11:04 PM 7/22/00 -0500, you wrote: Tom Brinkman wrote: But will they accept and convert OS/2 and Win icons? I thought I tried and they did not? If you take any .gif file and reduce it to 64x64 and change it to an .xpm, you can then use it as a KDE icon. And you can use xv to convert gif or bmp files to xpm format. Norm
Re: [expert] More version 7.1 problems
Tom Brinkman wrote: But will they accept and convert OS/2 and Win icons? I thought I tried and they did not? If you take any .gif file and reduce it to 64x64 and change it to an .xpm, you can then use it as a KDE icon. And you can use xv to convert gif or bmp files to xpm format. Norm
Re: [expert] More version 7.1 problems
Is there a good URL for Linux icons, or way to import windows icons. I need a good icon for WordPerfect and cannot find one. Thanks. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 - Original Message - From: Todd Swain [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 5:32 PM Subject: Re: [expert] More version 7.1 problems Gil, Adding Icons to the desktop in Linux (KDE) isn't much more difficult. To add an icon to the desktop, you will need to do the following: 1. right click on the desktop and select NEW option. 2. from the NEW popup list, select the type of shortcut you want. (if its an application shortcut, or a folder short cut ..etc.) 3. plug in the properties and your set. To add something to the panel you goto the main menu and then to the PANEL MENU and then select add application. The rest is self explanatory. --T.
Re: [expert] More version 7.1 problems
Jeff Malka wrote: Is there a good URL for Linux icons, or way to import windows icons. I need a good icon for WordPerfect and cannot find one. Thanks. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 the kde icons are .xpm files and there is an editor for them on your installation, one for gnome, and one for kde Menu-Multimedia-graphics shows both of them Civileme
Re: [expert] More version 7.1 problems
Isn't iconfest still part of cooker? Hoyt - Original Message - From: "Civileme" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 5:36 PM Subject: Re: [expert] More version 7.1 problems Jeff Malka wrote: Is there a good URL for Linux icons, or way to import windows icons. I need a good icon for WordPerfect and cannot find one. Thanks. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 the kde icons are .xpm files and there is an editor for them on your installation, one for gnome, and one for kde Menu-Multimedia-graphics shows both of them Civileme
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Thanks for replying. But will they accept and convert OS/2 and Win icons? I thought I tried and they did not? Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 - Original Message - From: Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 5:36 PM Subject: Re: [expert] More version 7.1 problems Jeff Malka wrote: Is there a good URL for Linux icons, or way to import windows icons. I need a good icon for WordPerfect and cannot find one. Thanks. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 the kde icons are .xpm files and there is an editor for them on your installation, one for gnome, and one for kde Menu-Multimedia-graphics shows both of them Civileme
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Civileme wrote: Jeff Malka wrote: Is there a good URL for Linux icons, or way to import windows icons. I need a good icon for WordPerfect and cannot find one. Thanks. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 the kde icons are .xpm files and there is an editor for them on your installation, one for gnome, and one for kde Menu-Multimedia-graphics shows both of them Civileme http://wm-icons.sourceforge.net Civileme
Re: [expert] More version 7.1 problems
On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, you wrote: Thanks for replying. But will they accept and convert OS/2 and Win icons? I thought I tried and they did not? Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 If you take any .gif file and reduce it to 64x64 and change it to an .xpm, you can then use it as a KDE icon. A Google search of 'linux icons' turns up several (mostly disappointing) links -- ~~ Tom Brinkman[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Civileme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 21, 2000 5:36 PM Subject: Re: [expert] More version 7.1 problems Jeff Malka wrote: Is there a good URL for Linux icons, or way to import windows icons. I need a good icon for WordPerfect and cannot find one. Thanks. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 the kde icons are .xpm files and there is an editor for them on your installation, one for gnome, and one for kde Menu-Multimedia-graphics shows both of them Civileme
Re: [expert] More version 7.1 problems
Gil Baron W0MN wrote: With version 7.0 all the icons on the panel at the bottom are about the same in root and in user modes. In version 7.1 I get almost nothing except KDE thats strange! Icon. Why, and how do you add icons to the bottom. I want my Konsole start ICON for instance and my calculator and all the rest. "K" - "Panel" - "Add Application" - select whatever u want.. For that matter, how do you add icons to the desktop. In Windows you just find the file executable and make a shortcut. It is usually Very easy to find because the name is almost always the name of the application. Is there a similar thing here and if so, how do I find out what the name of the programs I want might be. I have noticed that in 7.0 I could just right click and say new applicaiton on the desktop.. but in 7.1, right click shows just "folder".. so all i can add is folder. But I found another way to add icons to the desktop.. "k" - "disk navigator" - "Desktop" - "Open Folder". once kfm opens the folder, right click and u'll be able add anything to the desktop now. Its a little ugly to add applciations.. when u say new-application, it pops up a dialog.. which omething like application.kdelink . you have to make sure that u keep the .kdelink suffix!.. thats rediculous on part of KDE.. so if ui want xmms, type xmms.kdelink and then the link will show "xmms".. and then go through the other menus and add the correct executable and set the icon. -sarang -- Gil Baron W0MN http://members.home.net/gbaron/ 44:04:55.9 N 92:30:46.206 W 1050' NAD27 "Hierro candente, batir de repente"
Re: [expert] More version 7.1 problems
Gil, Adding Icons to the desktop in Linux (KDE) isn't much more difficult. To add an icon to the desktop, you will need to do the following: 1. right click on the desktop and select NEW option. 2. from the NEW popup list, select the type of shortcut you want. (if its an application shortcut, or a folder short cut ..etc.) 3. plug in the properties and your set. To add something to the panel you goto the main menu and then to the PANEL MENU and then select add application. The rest is self explanatory. --T.
RE: [expert] More version 7.1 problems
Thanks a lot for the help. I will try this. Too bad the help does not make it so clear. Thanks again. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Todd Swain Sent: Thursday, July 20, 2000 4:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] More version 7.1 problems Gil, Adding Icons to the desktop in Linux (KDE) isn't much more difficult. To add an icon to the desktop, you will need to do the following: 1. right click on the desktop and select NEW option. 2. from the NEW popup list, select the type of shortcut you want. (if its an application shortcut, or a folder short cut ..etc.) 3. plug in the properties and your set. To add something to the panel you goto the main menu and then to the PANEL MENU and then select add application. The rest is self explanatory. --T.
Re: [expert] More version 7.1 problems
Sarang Lakare wrote:
{snip}
I have noticed that in 7.0 I could just right click and say new applicaiton
on the desktop.. but in 7.1, right click shows just "folder".. so all i can
add is folder.
[snip]
Sarangmy installation of 7.1 does not have that problem, I
right-click the desktop and choose new and get folder plus 6
other file types just like in previous releases. I'd get on
cooker and yell for some of the developers to help if it were
me.
Alan
Re: [expert] More version 7.1 problems
On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, you wrote:
I, too, get "folder" as my one option when I
right-click on the KDE desktop in mdk7.1
Pelon
Sarang Lakare wrote:
{snip}
I have noticed that in 7.0 I could just right click and say new applicaiton
on the desktop.. but in 7.1, right click shows just "folder".. so all i can
add is folder.
[snip]
Sarangmy installation of 7.1 does not have that problem, I
right-click the desktop and choose new and get folder plus 6
other file types just like in previous releases. I'd get on
cooker and yell for some of the developers to help if it were
me.
Alan
Re: [expert] More version 7.1 problems
On Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:39:13 -0700, you wrote: On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, you wrote: I, too, get "folder" as my one option when I right-click on the KDE desktop in mdk7.1 Pelon Create a folder called, say, NewApps. Open the folder. Now you can create an icon-link for an application, within the folder. Then move the app to the Desktop. I don't know why the procedure was changed. Steve Stephen B. Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, you wrote: You're correct Steve. I think you're remembering the old "Templates" folder. You can find it at ~/.kde/Templates and /usr/share/apps/kfm/Templates. And you can still right click in the file manger to get the Template listing. But with mdk7.0 you also could get this list by right-clicking the desktop. If anyone knows where the desktop right-click menu is buried I would appreciate the info. Pelon On Thu, 20 Jul 2000 16:39:13 -0700, you wrote: On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, you wrote: I, too, get "folder" as my one option when I right-click on the KDE desktop in mdk7.1 Pelon Create a folder called, say, NewApps. Open the folder. Now you can create an icon-link for an application, within the folder. Then move the app to the Desktop. I don't know why the procedure was changed. Steve Stephen B. Browne [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [expert] More version 7.1 problems
Pelon wrote: You're correct Steve. I think you're remembering the old "Templates" folder. You can find it at ~/.kde/Templates and /usr/share/apps/kfm/Templates. And you can still right click in the file manger to get the Template listing. But with mdk7.0 you also could get this list by right-clicking the desktop. If anyone knows where the desktop right-click menu is buried I would appreciate the info. KDE gets what it presents with the right-click | New menu from...~/.kde/Templates. This is one of those standard aspects of KDE that Mandrake for some reason modified or broke (depending on your point of view) in 7.1, which I still fine very annoying. On the other hand, it still works fine for non-root users on one of the identical machines and installs that I did...and luckily this is the machine I use. Of course, why it functions on one and not the other is still a mystery (the machines are identical, and the installs were identical except for choice of XFree version--though both are now running the same version). Norm
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Steve Browne wrote: Create a folder called, say, NewApps. Open the folder. Now you can create an icon-link for an application, within the folder. Then move the app to the Desktop. I don't know why the procedure was changed. All you have to do is go into ~/Desktop and create them there. Norm
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Norm, I am one of those bad people that runs root all the time. I logged in as a normal user for the first time since installing and the right-click menu is complete. I'm wondering if some of the problems that people are having are related to the new security system. root seems to have taken a beating. On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, you wrote: Norm wrote: KDE gets what it presents with the right-click | New menu from...~/.kde/Templates. This is one of those standard aspects of KDE that Mandrake for some reason modified or broke (depending on your point of view) in 7.1, which I still fine very annoying. On the other hand, it still works fine for non-root users on one of the identical machines and installs that I did...and luckily this is the machine I use. Of course, why it functions on one and not the other is still a mystery (the machines are identical, and the installs were identical except for choice of XFree version--though both are now running the same version). Norm
Re: [expert] More version 7.1 problems
Pelon wrote: Norm, I am one of those bad people that runs root all the time. I logged in as a normal user for the first time since installing and the right-click menu is complete. I'm wondering if some of the problems that people are having are related to the new security system. root seems to have taken a beating. Sorry to butt in on this, but I noticed the same thing when using 7.1: root's right-click menu wasn't complete, as compared to regular users. If this is already general knowledge, again, all apologies. ---Norvell Spearman --- ``Trouble is my business.'' ---Philip Marlowe
Re: [expert] More version 7.1 problems
Hey Sarang, Your not the only one disappointed in 7.1. Out of two computers in the house, a laptop and a desktop, the laptop had no sound and the desktop just did not get the X server running due to incompatability with a listed video card. Also out of a number of other desktops at a linux group I go to weekly, a lot more failures came from various installations and upgrades. Looking at 7.1 from the laptop, I ask the question, why did they not improve what they already had in 7.0 and not start from scratch? Where was menu editor? Why did they not install a search engine for K-menu with the tree setup they also installed, it took a minute or two to find something (ie.kpackage) if you happen to forget where it is? (Compare this to 7.0) Why get rid of Application, Device, etc. from desktop mouse right-click? Basically you would think with a newer version you could install on any prior installable computer plus any new ones unknown to the prior version. But NO! not with Mandrake 7.1 or is it (7.1(Beta)). No it should be called 7.1(Failure). Simon On Thu, Jul 20, 2000 at 05:22:20PM -0400, Sarang Lakare wrote: Gil Baron W0MN wrote: With version 7.0 all the icons on the panel at the bottom are about the same in root and in user modes. In version 7.1 I get almost nothing except KDE thats strange! Icon. Why, and how do you add icons to the bottom. I want my Konsole start ICON for instance and my calculator and all the rest. "K" - "Panel" - "Add Application" - select whatever u want.. For that matter, how do you add icons to the desktop. In Windows you just find the file executable and make a shortcut. It is usually Very easy to find because the name is almost always the name of the application. Is there a similar thing here and if so, how do I find out what the name of the programs I want might be. I have noticed that in 7.0 I could just right click and say new applicaiton on the desktop.. but in 7.1, right click shows just "folder".. so all i can add is folder. But I found another way to add icons to the desktop.. "k" - "disk navigator" - "Desktop" - "Open Folder". once kfm opens the folder, right click and u'll be able add anything to the desktop now. Its a little ugly to add applciations.. when u say new-application, it pops up a dialog.. which omething like application.kdelink . you have to make sure that u keep the .kdelink suffix!.. thats rediculous on part of KDE.. so if ui want xmms, type xmms.kdelink and then the link will show "xmms".. and then go through the other menus and add the correct executable and set the icon. -sarang -- Gil Baron W0MN http://members.home.net/gbaron/ 44:04:55.9 N 92:30:46.206 W 1050' NAD27 "Hierro candente, batir de repente" PGP signature
