desktop problems

[Jud Craft]

It may also be that just the Fedora 9 version of Switchdesk has some
new bugs.  If you Google "f9 switchdesk", there appear to be a few
problems with it, especially with KDE.

On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 10:49 PM, Jud Craft <craftjml at gmail.com> wrote:
> The truth is, Landon, for many of the KDE problems you've just
> mentioned -- no auto hide on panel, allow another color -- these
> aren't necessarily bugs, but limitations in KDE 4.0.5's Plasma.  They
> just haven't been implemented yet.
>
> Yum Update should bring KDE 4.1 soon, I hope it helps.
>
> In the meantime...I finally realized what you are talking about with
> 'switchdesk'.  If I recall, isn't that a small program that lets you
> rapidly flip between GNOME and KDE sessions?
>
> I highly suspect that considering how much KDE has changed since 3.5,
> switchdesk probably gives a lot of glitches when used with KDE4.
> That's not necessarily KDE4's fault; switchdesk was probably meant for
> GNOME and KDE 3.5.
>
> If you just switch using the Login screen in Fedora, you'll probably
> be okay.  Switchdesk is a specialty tool, and it's hard to identify
> what's wrong when you use switchdesk, because I imagine not many users
> actually use it.  I've only read about it myself.
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 7:24 PM, landon kelsey
> <landonmkelsey at hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> the problem is that I am not sure where KDE stops and Fedora picks up!
>>
>> THIS is why I stopped making bug reports!
>>
>> I may ask some general questions!
>>
>> In general, I wait for yum update to deliver a new version trusting that somebody found the problem!
>>
>> After making an exhaustive bug report, some wise person comes back and says:
>>
>> (1) the bug report is not valid
>> (2) they do not find the bug
>> (3) the bug report is in the wrong place
>> (4)
>> (5)
>>
>>
>> ----------------------------------------
>>> From: groot at kde.org
>>> To: kde-quality at kde.org
>>> Subject: Re: desktop problems
>>> Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2008 00:33:24 +0200
>>>
>>> Hi Landon,
>>>
>>> The kde-quality list isn't really the place for Fedora issues. It's more about
>>> the software engineering and quality checking tools we use. Fedora issues are
>>> best reported through the Fedora mailing lists or forums or whatever they
>>> have.
>>>
>>>> will the panel ever recover the hide feature?
>>>>
>>>> or allow another color!
>>>
>>> Yes  and yes.
>>>
>>>> Gnome put icons on the desktop at the upper left for the flash memory stick
>>>> and NTFS.
>>>>
>>>> Under KDE I must first use dolphin to open each so others can see the
>>>> files!
>>>
>>> That is something you could file a bug for on bugs.kde.org -- but bear in mind
>>> that there's the recently plugged devices thing in the panel which allows the
>>> same kind of access.
>>>
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