[kde-linux] "Classic" interface for KDE 4.

[Anne Wilson]

On Tuesday 23 June 2009 17:01:48 John Culleton wrote:
> On Monday 22 June 2009 05:04:43 pm Felix Miata wrote:
> > On 2009/06/22 16:56 (GMT-0400) John Culleton composed:
> > > Can KDE 4 be set up with the same kind of user interface as
> > > 3.5? I find the menuing system very clumsy on KDE 4.
> >
> > Did you try a right click on the menu starter button? That's
> > where it was last I looked.
>
> Thanks. That does the trick. Now how do I move applications to the
> classic Kicker Bar? On 3.5 you just click between apps and you get
> a dialogue that allows you to insert an icon for either a menued
> app or a non-menued app.  The same procedure on KDE4 with the
> Classic interface only offers a limited number of widgets, and not
> a full range of apps.
>
>  My Kicker bar on 3.5 has Firefox, Konsole, Kcalc, Open Office
> Writer, Konqueror, Scribus, Gimp, Gvim and Kmail.  I would like to
> populate my  KDE4 Kicker similarly.
>
>
> The UserBase is not easily searchable for questions like this.  It
> defines Kicker but doesn't seem to describe how to populate it.

Frankly it's easy with the kickoff menu.  Type the name of the app you want in 
the search bar.  When it finds it, right-click on the name and select Add to 
Panel.  Switching between the two menu modes is so easy you can swap back and 
forth if it saves you work.

Anne
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