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Apparently, though unproven, at 15:15 on Tuesday 24 May 2011, András Csányi |
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did opine thusly: |
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> On 24 May 2011 15:09, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> > Apparently, though unproven, at 14:53 on Tuesday 24 May 2011, András |
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> > Csányi |
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> > did opine thusly: |
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> >> Hi Guys, |
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> >> I'm an old Gentoo fun and after a while I installed back to my |
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> >> machine. Unfortunately, I got used to the comfort of the Windows and |
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> >> my main purpose is that to make a comfortable work environment which |
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> >> is as comfortable as Win7 could be. The first step is in this process |
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> >> the taskbar. |
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> >> So, I'm just wondering is there any solution to have vertical menu in |
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> >> KDE4? I would like to something like Win7 taskbar? In Xfce I was able |
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> >> to do this but, to be honest, my favorite desktop environment in *nix |
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> >> world is KDE. |
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> >> I have 2 monitors and it's very comfortable that when I put the panel |
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> >> (taskbar) the right side of left monitor because this is almost |
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> >> centered. |
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> >> Thanks in advance, |
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> >> |
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> >> András |
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> > Click the cashew at the right hand side of the taskbar, click Screen Edge |
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> > and drag it to where you want it to go. |
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> Hi Alan, |
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> Really??? I won the Lame of the Day prize.. :) |
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In truth, it's not that easy to find if you do not already know KDE. To |
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someone new to KDE, the cashew could be many things - decoration? a button |
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that does nothing? a broken button that flashes something and then goes away |
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as soon as you move the mouse? but it being the config Go button is the very |
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last thing most people will think of. |
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And then there's the problem of bounding the pointer inside the taskbar while |
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moving it around. Move the pointer one pixel outside the black bar, and it |
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instantly goes away. |
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KDE is and has many good things, but a well thought-out taskbar configurator |
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is not in that list :-) |
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alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com |