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Preview of KDE 3.5
tr_x_data writes "There is a quite interesting KDE 3.5 preview with screenshots on JLP's Blog. I thought there wouldn't be so much improvement to KDE 3.4 since everyone is working on porting KDE4 to QT4, but obviously there are quite a few changes. Look forward to "Storage Media Notification", "Adblock" for Konqueror, new Tooltips, better Workspace-Pager, and so on. Read for yourself."
Right-click on the panel, select "Configure Panel...", change the size from normal to small or tiny, and click OK.
For those with XP
The easiest way to handle this? Disable AutoPlay.
I find it best to disable CD or DVD autoplay in XP using either local group policy or, for an enterprise, an Active Directory group policy.
The local group policy editor method:
* Click Start
* Click Run
* Enter GPEDIT.MSC
Group Policy mmc will popup. On left panel:
* Double-click Computer Configuration to open submenu
* Double-click Administrative Templates to open submenu
* Double-click System to open submenu
* Double-click Turn autoplay off option which will be near the bottom of the list in the right panel.
The default is the Not configured . Set it to Enabled.
This will still allow Windows to regonize when new media is inserted and any icons will appear/update or whatever. You can still right click and choose autoplay, but no CDs or DVDs will autoplay upon insertion. You can also change the setting to do the same with all inserted drives to stop autoplay for usb drives and the like.
Don't bother scrolling down to read the comments in the blog, they are just a bunch of racist jokes and rants pasted in from somewhere else.
It might be a good idea for the blog author to turn off commenting for this post.
Google Search of KDE Change Logs
for the last time people, I am "frodo from middle eaRTH", not "middle eaST".
http://developer.kde.org/development-versions/kde- 3.5-features.html#finished
Right now K doesn't stand for anything, its just the "K Desktop Environment".
However, it started out as the Kool Desktop Environment. Read the 1996 project announcement on usenet, and the interesting replies.
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I have a "Align to Grid" option...that obviously aligns all icons onto a grid, not into vertical columns or rows...that is the quasi-radon scattering you talk about. It just moves the icon to the nearest position on the grid.
;-)
But I also have "Line up Vertically" and "Line up Horizontally" commands which...well I think do exactly as you wish
This is in KDE 3.4 by the way...
Unlike GNOME, the KDE developers understand that the tiny usability improvement of having the buttons in a different order is vastly outweighed by the massive usability mistake of surprising users by switching around the order of the buttons to the exact opposite of what it was before.
Sure, it might be nice to have Close on one side instead of Save, but it sure is annoying when you've been clicking in the same place for years to save, and end up closing instead.
> Is KDE a window manager or a collection of
......
> applications, or both?
KDE ships with a window manager, kwin. it's also a collection of applications that span the gammut from web browser to file manager to groupware to image viewing/editting to media playing to software development to
it's ALSO an application development framework, and ALSO a desktop infrastructure (providing things like IPC, access to standard services, network transparent IO, etc)
> And when will they remove all those games that
> no-one really plays?
when no one really plays them. =) just don't install the kdegames package. very easy =)
I have found that people get used to the annoying behaviors of computers very quickly but are also quick to recognize good behavior. Just because they expect the dialog box does not mean that they don't find it irritating. Give them a better solution, and they'll gladly accept it. A new media notifier doesn't have to be exactly what they're expecting, it just has to be intuitive (admittedly, not necessarily a trivial thing!).
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Shift+Delete seems to be the standard "Delete without moving to trash" key combo.