kde 4.1 panel windows + drag/move

NoOp glgxg at sbcglobal.net
Tue Aug 19 00:32:02 UTC 2008


On 08/18/2008 05:24 PM, William Witt wrote:
> On Monday 18 August 2008 19:59:09 NoOp wrote:
>> I'm a gnome guy; however I've installed kde 4.1 on 2 systems to: 1) try
>> to assist Leonard with his SeaMonkey issue, and 2) just to see what it
>> is about. There are a lot of things that are different of course, but
>> one thing that I find lacking is the ability to move a panel window pane
>> to another postion on the panel bar. Perhaps I'm doing something wrong,
>> but in Gnome if I have multiple windows open the panel bar may look
>> something like:
>>
>> desktopstuff|emailwindow|browserwindow1|browserwindow2|terminalwindow
>>
>> In Gnome I can take 'terminalwindow' by using the mouse and drag it in
>> front of 'emailwindow' so the panel then shows:
>>
>> desktopstuff|terminalwindow|emailwindow|browserwindow1|browserwindow2
>>
>> Is this not possible in kde/kde 4.1 & if so, what do I need to do to get
>> it to work?
> 
> To move plasmoids (widgets) around the panel, you must first click on the 
> plasma symbol (looks kind of like half of a yin/yang symbol) on the panel.  If 
> it is not there, right click on the desktop and click unlock widgets.  You 
> should then be able to move them around at will.  To move the panel around, 
> click and drag on the control panel that comes up after clicking on the plasma 
> symbol.  
> 
> Moving plasmoids on the panel is one of the new features of 4.1.
> 
> Will  
> 

Been there, done that. It only moves the entire
'emailwindow|browserwindow1|browserwindow2|terminalwindow' group, and I
can't get it to move only one of them as described above.






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