<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd"><html><head><meta name="qrichtext" content="1" /><style type="text/css">p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }</style></head><body style=" font-family:'Maiandra GD'; font-size:11pt; font-weight:400; font-style:normal;">On Thursday 19 February 2009 17:48:31 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:<br>
> Rick Miles wrote:<br>
> > Nikos Chantziaras wrote:<br>
> > > > Rick Miles wrote:<br>
> > > >> I have asked about this on two threads and apparently no one else<br>
> > > >> saw it as an issue but AFAIC it is really handy among other things<br>
> > > >> to hit an icon that will open up a browser at a predefined URL.<br>
> > > ><br>
> > > > I can do that just fine here. Right-click on desktop, "Create<br>
> > > > New->Link to location". I enter "http://www.google.com/linux" and<br>
> > > > there, I just created it. I double-click it, Firefox opens up<br>
> > > > google/linux. You select the icon, press F2 and can rename it to<br>
> > > > whatever you want (you don't need to keep the ".desktop" suffix).<br>
> > > > You can also right-click and in the properties select another icon<br>
> > > > for it.<br>
> > > ><br>
> > > > This is with vanilla, unmodified KDE 4.2.0.<br>
> ><br>
> > You must have a different brand of vanilla I can't do that on my desktop<br>
> > but I can do that in the folder ~/Desktop which the kde docs Anne<br>
> > referred me to say to use that method as a workaround if one wants that<br>
> > kind of kde 3 desktop functionality on a kde 4 desktop.<br>
> ><br>
> > I think this may be a point of confusion desktop or the folder ~/Desktop<br>
> > on the desktop.<br>
><br>
> Your desktop can be whatever you want it to be. <br>
and I don't want to have to put a folder named anything on top of it to be able to add my own icons to it.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>> You can have<br>
> ~/.desktopicons instead of ~/Desktop. I don't see where the problem is,<br>
> if there is a problem at all.<br>
><br>
The method you prefer is discussed in the KDE docs under the heading " If you prefer a Classic, KDE3-style Desktop" I don't. I'd rather learn how to work with KDE4 but not be constrained with what I can do.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>For example, I want a home icon that will open up konqueror with my home directory and I want it in Quicklaunch on my panel. I have a diamond crystal 42x42 home.png in my local icons directory. <br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>This would be easy the way you want to do it into a folder using foldview to paste a folder across the entire desktop. However, that method won't work for installing an icon in the quicklaunch applet.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>A file named home.desktop with the lines below saved into /usr/share/applications gives me an icon I can put in quicklaunch using the KDE quicklaunch add applet selection/menu and when I select it I get my home directory in konqueror.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>There is no folderview in Quicklaunch.<br>
<p style="-qt-paragraph-type:empty; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br></p>[Desktop Entry]<br>
Name=Home<br>
Comment=Home Directory<br>
Exec=/usr/bin/konqueror ~/<br>
Icon=/usr/local/share/icons/home-42.png<br>
Terminal=0<br>
Type=Application<br>
Categories=Application;Network;<br>
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Cheers,<br>
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