Hello there,
I've used gnome for a very very long time now and have recently switched to kde with the 4.2 release as it seemed to be a) pretty at last and b) finally reasonably stable. I have a couple of niggles however.
Is there a way to change the system tray icon size independently of the other icon size's in the panel? I ask this because the icons don't seem to fit properly in the system tray :s
Also, I tried setting up my synaptics touchpad to disable tap clicking using this guide https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticsTouchpad. Noticing that that the kde tool was outdated I tried the 'Xubuntu and others' method, yet this package was not in the repos... however I found the gnome package, and it seemed to work, but when restarting it would appear that my settings were not saved :s any idea how to fix this? EDIT: duh, I didnt run it as su, I'll try this now and restart
Another issue I have is the ability to setup custom key bindings... now I would assume this would be quite a basic feature of a wm, however I can't for the life of me find anyway of doing this, without installing yet more software.
Now onto a an annoying problem rather than a niggle. I've googled around a lot about an error message appearing when trying to enable desktop effects, and there seems to be a lot of people having this trouble. I have experienced this problem, however with me it seems to be intermittent... If I dont change any settings, i can simply log in, then log out, then back in again and the desktop effects won't work... its rather puzzling. I also dont want to switch to compiz, as nice as it is, I like the idea of kwin being more integral in kde.
Another feature I find missing is the zoomable icons in the panel. Now, its been a while since I used KDE (about 5/6 years) but im sure you could make the panel icons zoom when hovered over? I miss this also it'd be nice if you could make some of the icons stand proud of the panel, like (i hate to say this) Windows Vistas start menu button.
Apart from the the lack of QT Firefox, and the endless attempts to make GTK root applications use my gtk-oxygen theme (Could use KDE style in GTK apps, but they get confused, bless) im pleased with my overall KDE4 experience. I think I prefer KDE's native apps over Gnomes.
But anyway, any help would be greatly appreciated. Sorry about ranting a little
Cheers
Dan
I've used gnome for a very very long time now and have recently switched to kde with the 4.2 release as it seemed to be a) pretty at last and b) finally reasonably stable. I have a couple of niggles however.
Is there a way to change the system tray icon size independently of the other icon size's in the panel? I ask this because the icons don't seem to fit properly in the system tray :s
Also, I tried setting up my synaptics touchpad to disable tap clicking using this guide https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SynapticsTouchpad. Noticing that that the kde tool was outdated I tried the 'Xubuntu and others' method, yet this package was not in the repos... however I found the gnome package, and it seemed to work, but when restarting it would appear that my settings were not saved :s any idea how to fix this? EDIT: duh, I didnt run it as su, I'll try this now and restart
Another issue I have is the ability to setup custom key bindings... now I would assume this would be quite a basic feature of a wm, however I can't for the life of me find anyway of doing this, without installing yet more software.
Now onto a an annoying problem rather than a niggle. I've googled around a lot about an error message appearing when trying to enable desktop effects, and there seems to be a lot of people having this trouble. I have experienced this problem, however with me it seems to be intermittent... If I dont change any settings, i can simply log in, then log out, then back in again and the desktop effects won't work... its rather puzzling. I also dont want to switch to compiz, as nice as it is, I like the idea of kwin being more integral in kde.
Another feature I find missing is the zoomable icons in the panel. Now, its been a while since I used KDE (about 5/6 years) but im sure you could make the panel icons zoom when hovered over? I miss this also it'd be nice if you could make some of the icons stand proud of the panel, like (i hate to say this) Windows Vistas start menu button.
Apart from the the lack of QT Firefox, and the endless attempts to make GTK root applications use my gtk-oxygen theme (Could use KDE style in GTK apps, but they get confused, bless) im pleased with my overall KDE4 experience. I think I prefer KDE's native apps over Gnomes.
But anyway, any help would be greatly appreciated. Sorry about ranting a little
Cheers
Dan
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