Tried KDE 4.1.2

[Richard S. Crawford]

I wasn't able to find those widgets. Is there an extra package I
should install through Adept?

By "Cashew", do you mean the icon that you click to bring up the widgets menu?

On Wed, Oct 8, 2008 at 11:57 AM,  <pkaplan1 at comcast.net> wrote:
> There is a quick launch plasmoid (Cashew, Add Widgets)
>
> The quick access plasmoid (same place) should be able to what you want.
> Paul
>
>  -------------- Original message ----------------------
> From: "Richard S. Crawford" <rscrawford at mossroot.com>
>> Well, I've been trying KDE 4 off and on.
>>
>> Is it okay to just not like it? It's smooth enough and fast enough and
>> pretty enough, but there are a couple of things that irked me,
>> especially in the panel:
>>
>> * I miss the Quicklaunch tool, and haven't been able to find a widget
>> like it for KDE 4. I know that I can drag program icons from the K
>> menu to the panel, but I have twelve programs listed in my Quicklaunch
>> tool, and twelve full-size icons on my KDE 4 panel just isn't going to
>> work.
>>
>> * I also miss the "Network Folders" icon and the "System Places" icon
>> on the panel. I haven't figured out how to replicate these functions
>> in KDE 4. And I really dislike the "folder view" widget. I prefer
>> having as clean a desktop as possible, and the "folder view" widget
>> just clutters it up.
>>
>> If anyone can tell me how to replicate these two functions in KDE 4,
>> I'd love it. But until I can get these things working, they're pretty
>> much a deal breaker for me and KDE 4.
>>
>>
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