OK -I'm trying

[Bob Stia]

On Thursday 25 December 2008 06:26:41 am Kishore wrote:
> On Thursday 25 Dec 2008 4:31:30 pm Anne Wilson wrote:
> > On Thursday 25 December 2008 00:05:25 Bob Stia wrote:
> > > 1 How does one get an application on the task bar? eg: Kmail. Konsole,
> > > Gimp, Kwrite, etc.?
> >
> > Find it in the menu - type the name into the search bar, if it's not
> > obvious - then right-click it.  You will be given the option of putting
> > an icon onto the desktop or onto the panel.
>
> You should also be able to drag the icon the location of your choice on the
> panel.
>
Nope, see my reply to Anne.

> > > 4. How does one invoke system sound for certain events, like changing
> > > to a different desktop or the closing of an app?
> >
> > I'll have to try to find out this for you - I would have expected it to
> > be systemsettings > Advanced tab > KDE Resources, which is the equivalent
> > of the KDE3 place, but the only things I'm seeing there are controls for
> > kontact applications.
>
> system settings->look and feel-> notifications. event source: "kde window
> manager" and there you should able to edit the notifications you mention.
>
Kishore, please excuse the old stupid guy. Where does one find "system 
settings"?

> > > 2.Yast has tiny tiny fonts. (I am visually impaired) I was able to
> > > increase font size in KDE and GTK to my satisfaction, but there is
> > > nothing for QT.
> >
> As Nikos mentions, this is most likely because yast is run as root and it
> uses the settings set for root user. You could run systemsettings as
> root and adjust fonts in there which should hopefully adjust the fonts as
> displayed in yast.

See my reply to Nikos

Bob S


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