Restoring legacy components

[Ric Moore]

On Fri, 2011-01-28 at 18:31 -0500, Doug wrote: 
> On 01/28/2011 07:51 AM, Liam Proven wrote:
> > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 3:12 AM, Goh Lip<g.lip at gmx.com>  wrote:
> >> /snip/
> > I have been trying KDE again in the last couple of days. So many
> > people on Sounder say it's better than GNOME.
> >
> > I installed a fresh copy of the latest SUSE, OpenSUSE 11.3, on a spare PC.
> >
> > It's sluggish, but then, I have long felt SUSE was rather lardy...
> >
> > But recent playing-around with PC-BSD 8.1 led me to think that one of
> > my niggles with KDE4 had gone away: that horrible floating "desktop"
> > window. KDE 4.5 in PC-BSD has actual desktop icons, finally restoring
> > basic 1984-level functionality to KDE4.
> >
> > Not on OpenSUSE, though.
> >
> > Is it possible to set KDE4 to show icons on the actual bl$%dy desktop
> > and not in some wretched floating plasmoid
> > sort-of-filer-window-but-not-quite thing? I do not like all the cr$ppy
> > floating gadgets or plasmoids or plasmids or whatever they're called -
> > frankly, I'd like to just turn them off altogether, but I don't think
> > that's possible. The default icon theme in SUSE KDE 4.4 is also crass,
> > ugly and as childishly amateur-looking as ever, but that is probably
> > fixable.
> >
> > I Googled it but the advice - pretty poorly-worded and vague as it was
> > - said right-click in various places and then to either choose menus
> > that don't exist or to go into a dialog box and choose options that
> > don't exist.
> >
> > I'd like to like KDE, honest I would. I was a big fan of KDE1. But 4
> > just repels me on sight.
> >
> >> /snip/
> >
> If you'd like a reasonable KDE using Linux rather than BSD, look at 
> PCLinuxOs--
> it has KDE 4.4.5, I believe, and you can have all the icons you want, and
> nothing floats.  There's even a way to get rid of the bull on the desktop
> while retaining the density gradations across the screen--you'd have to 
> look
> in the forum archives.  IIRC, look for "no bull".

Maybe Mark should just buy them and put them onto Kubuntu. It's a
thought. :) Ric


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