Some more KDE4 questions

[Kishore]

On Saturday 01 Nov 2008 9:26:38 am D. R. Evans wrote:
> Still struggling with KDE4 here. I have some more questions.
>
> 1. In KDE3 one could have the "most-frequently used" applications
> appear separately on the menu. This was a great time-saver. How do I
> get the same behaviour/feature in KDE4?

Use the favourites. or the recently used tabs. To add an application to the 
favourites tab, just right click the application of your choice in the menu 
and select add to favourites.

> 2. Similarly, the Quicklaunch panel applet allowed one-click access to
> most of my commonly-used applications. How do I get the same function
> in KDE4?

You should be able to drag any application from the menu into the panel and it 
would make a quick launch icon. Just make sure that widgets are not locked.

> 3. I am used to seeing little icons on the various desktops in the
> panel pager applet. How do I get the same behaviour in KDE4? (I find
> the pager to be essentially useless in KDE4, since every desktop looks
> the same, regardless of whether windows are open on the desktop or
> not.)

The windows are shown in the pager but appears not to show the icons here on 
64 bit Ibex. Right click on the pager and in pager settings is an option to 
display window icons.

> 4. I haven't been able to get any of my old superkaramba themes to
> run. Are there any instructions anywhere that really work? I've found
> a few sets of instructions, but none of them seem to work properly.
> Probably they are assuming something that isn't true (a missing
> package or something).
>
> 5. Trying to install widgets from the Internet shows a grand total of
> 2 widgets (C"PU frequency selector" and "Scripted Image"). Obviously
> there are tons more somewhere. How do I configure my system so that it
> finds them when I try the Download from Internet" option?

This is not going to be possible until 4.2 is releases AFAIK. It is apparently 
a security that widgets downloaded from anywhere can execute on your machine 
and could potentially do some damage.

>   Doc
-- 
Cheers!
Kishore
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