<!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;"><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>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 but I can do that in the folder ~/Desktop which the kde docs Anne referred me to say to use that method as a workaround if one wants that kind of kde 3 desktop functionality on a kde 4 desktop.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
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