Tried KDE 4.1.2

[pkaplan1 at comcast.net]

kdeplasma-addons package (make sure you install the version for kde 4.1.2, not the extragear package included w/ 4.0.

I see that I must have installed a quicklauncher package, so check out plasmoids at kde-apps.org.  Most have to be compiled but if you have the necessary development packages (I don't recall which, but the error messages you get when attempting to compile can be revealing) it just takes a few minutes.

download <plasmoid>
tar -xvf <plasmoid>
cd <plasmod>
mkdir build
cd build
cmake -DCMAKE_INSTALL_PREFIX=`kde4-config --prefix` ..
make
sudo make install

Paul

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Richard S. Crawford" <rscrawford at mossroot.com>
> 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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