[kde-doc-english] Userguide - Kcontrol->Desktop

[J Hall]

Hi!

Here is a page on the "Desktop" section of Kcontrol for the user guide. I hope 
it's appropriate :)

J Hall.



Desktop

This is where you will find settings to configure the appearance and behaviour 
of your KDE desktop.


Behavior:

Here you can configure the behavior of your desktop. This is where you would 
go to configure options such as showing or hiding desktop icons, showing 
tooltips and icon layout. You can also specify if you would like to see 
previews of particular filetypes on the desktop, and which devices you'd like 
to see icons for.

Multiple Desktops:

This is where you would configure the number of virtual desktops or workspaces 
you would like to have, and what you would like them to be called. By default 
KDE has 4 virtual desktops, and you can configure up to 20. You can also 
enable switching between virtual desktops using the scroll button on your 
mouse.

Panels:

Here you can modify options to do with Kicker and other KDE panels. Among the 
options are size, position, length and hiding. You can also modify the 
appearance of the panel with transparency, background images and icon 
zooming. This is also where you would configure various menu options 
including what applications you'd like to show in your K Menu.

Taskbar:

The Taskbar module allowed you to configure options related to your taskbar. 
You can configure whether to show windows from all desktops, grouping of 
similar tasks and what actions you would like to assign to your mouse 
buttons.

Window Behavior:

This is where you would configure options related to the behavior of KDE's 
window manager, Kwin. Kwin is extremely configurable and has advanced 
features such as focus stealing prevention and different focus policies such 
as focus follows mouse. You can also configure what actions you would like to 
bind to certain keys and mouse events.

Window-Specific-Settings:

This is an advanced configuration dialog where you can set options for the 
behavior of specific windows. There are many options here for the fine tuning 
of your window layout, including what position on the screen you would like 
certain windows to open to, and whether they should be shown on the taskbar 
or pager. You can select windows by application, or even by their specific 
role within an application.