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On Fri, 2005-04-22 at 10:07 -0400, Ed Sutherland wrote:
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">I'm feeling a bit compu-schizoid; I like KDE's way of doing some things, </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">but I like Gnome ability to just get the job done. After that brief </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">psycho-profile, I have a few questions:</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">1. Why does playing audio CDs work perfectly 'out of the box' with Gnome </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">and not KDE? I could stand on my head and spit jelly beans, but KDE </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">still refuses to play simple CDs. Anyone know of a straight-forward </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">steb-by-step guide to solving the most common KDE audio problems?</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">2. Creating a desktop icon for my home directory in KDE is a rather </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">straightforward process; in Gnome it is nowhere near as clear. I want a </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">desktop icon so that I can drag files from the desktop to my home </FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">directory. What are the steps?</FONT>
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open up your gconf-editor ('Applications/System Tools/Configuration Editor'), the browse its internal tree to: 'apps/nautilus/desktop' and tick on 'home_icon_visible'<BR>
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There are other icons which can be enabled there, too.<BR>
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This is the "right" way to do it in gnome.<BR>
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mike<BR>
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<FONT COLOR="#000000">Thanks.</FONT>
<FONT COLOR="#000000">Ed</FONT>
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