OK -I'm trying

[Anne Wilson]

On Friday 26 December 2008 01:04:10 Bob Stia wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Hello Anne,
>
> Nope, No dialogue. Doesn't work. If I right click it (eg. kmail) it opens
> the app. But I can then close the app and drag it to the desktop folder,
> which works. If I try to drag it to the task bar it crashes kicker (task
> bar) Had to delete plasmarc and start over.
>
There's something very odd there, Bob.  I think the best thing to do is to ask 
on an IRC channel if you can manage that, or on an opensuse mailing list.  
This is something that has been standard behaviour since 4.0.

> Kicker (or Task Bar) is really funky. You can't add apps except what is
> already there and trying to move stuff around is an absolute nightmare.
>
It's not expected that you would need to add them directly to the panel.  Do 
you have a cashew at the extreme right of the panel?  If so, click on that and 
it should bring up the panel config (which is in an additional panel just 
above the real one).  Alternatively, a right-click on the panel should give 
you Panel Settings, with the same result.  When you move your cursor from the 
config panel to the main one you should get a diamond-shaped cursor.  Using 
that, click on an icon that you want to move and you should be able to drag it 
to its new home.  When you've finished, click the red X on the config panel to 
exit.

> > > 3. How does one change the icons for different functions? (Presently
> > > both the screensaver and log out functions are using the Dolphin icon)
> >
> > Do you mean in the menu?  If so, does OpenSUSE give you a menu editor?
> > That's the place to change the icon, if it does.  Click on the old icon
> > and you should see what's available to you.
>
> No in the task bar, and no left or right clicks bring up any kind of menu.
> Have no idea about how to do that. Wouldn't think that the screensaver or
> the "log out" had their own icon or if it did, where to find it.
>
I'm beginning to think there is something seriously wrong.  As far as I know 
all the icons used on the panel are the ones associated with the application.  
Attached is a .png of my panel taken a while ago.

> > > 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.
> >
> > Not sure about that.  Have you increased the size of fonts in
> > systemsettings > Appearance tab > Fonts?  If you've tried all that it may
> > be an OpenSUSE- specific thing, since yast is their tool.
>
> See my replies to other helpful people in this regard.
>
Others are advising you on this, and know more about it than I do.

> > > 4. And this last is probably a bug but would like someone else to
> > > verify it. Under Accessibility > Fonts > Sticky keys. If that is
> > > enabled it is impossible to type anything into an app on the screen.
> > > Just doesn't appear. eg: Konsole, Kwrite, any app which requires text
> > > input.
>
> I would really like someone else to try this so I can verify if it my
> system or a global thing. If others verify it I will file a bug.
>
You need to check with other users of the same distribution version.

> Looked at your reccomended URL's. Not much there that I didn't know about.
> I have been following development and trying to adopt.

OK, fine.  Userbase is growing slowly, so keep an eye on it :-)

Anne

Later:  The message + png was too big, so the image is sent direct.  If anyone 
reading this thinks it would help them, please ask me off-list

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