How can I organize projects in KDE?

[whatthefunk]

BTW, can anyone tell me why my Smileys don't show up?

They seem fine to me.

[kenj70]

They seem fine to me.

Yes! My most recent post I now can see the smileys. But my post #4 they still don't show up.

-=Ken=-

[Snowhog]

Yes! My most recent post I now can see the smileys. But my post #4 they still don't show up.

-=Ken=-

Click Edit Post then click on Go Advanced then scroll down and uncheck Disable smilies in text.

[kenj70]

@Snowhog I found it! Thanks.

@woodsmoke I have read and reread your post #10 and I can't figure out if you are mad at me - or who? It is not clear to me.

I do appreciate your attempt to help with some - - - directions. However, I am new to KDE and don't yet understand some of the terminology. I have heard of the KDE "cashew" but I have never seen one on my screen. When I do a search for KDE desktop I get a whole raft of pages that turn out to be KDE 3 and KDE 4 but precious little for KDE 5. I am still somewhat clueless how to do things on this desktop. I used to write technical documentation - and was quite good at it - and clicking the "thingy" is rather vague to me! Some of the steps you gave don't seem to work at all. For example:

Depending on your particular incarnation of "KDE / Kubuntu" you can right click or click the cashew...

and IN THE ACTIVITY...

OPEN AN APPLICATION...does not matter what it is...

go up to the top left and click the "thingy" and go through the menu system to... associate the application to the activity...

Since I don't have a "cashew" I right-click on my Desktop, which happens to have the 'Video Editing' Activity already selected. It brings up a context menu which allows me to select which Activity to use. Since I have already selected my Activity this step is redundant. So, I open a video editor application and reduce the size of its window so I can work with other items. Then, you say to go to the top left and click the "thingy." Top-left of what? Top-left of the desktop? Top-left of the Application Menu Bar, which is now "stuck" to the top of the Desktop? Or, the top-left of the open application? In none of those items is there a menu system to associate the application!

Simple? No brainer? Not to me. Call me thick - but don't call me not trying.

[Off Topic] BTW, since I seem to have triggered a rant (much to my shock and dismay) I have some further questions to ask of this erudite crowd. Is there some kind of Nicene feud among the Linux camps? I spent some time on the ububntu Forum and they insist that KDE Neon is a separate and apparently unapproved "distribution." Whereas, the Neon folks insist that KDE Neon is NOT a distribution. I have noticed that this forum has a sub-forum dedicated to KDE Neon. I have also read that Neon developers probably hang out here more than they do in the KDE Forum

Yes, I'm just full of questions. And I am amazed and pleased at the participation here. I hope you can fill me in.

-=Ken=-

[GreyGeek]

Woody is a good spirit. As a college prof myself in times past I understand the travails he’s subjected to. He often unloads his frustrations in this forum as a form of self therapy because he can’t at work, and nothing is more depressing to a free spirit than having to work in a PC academic environment

[dequire]

Yes, I'm just full of questions. And I am amazed and pleased at the participation here. I hope you can fill me in.-=Ken=-

I have to wholeheartedly agree here. When I try to go to the KDE forums I find it rather depressing and either a b**** session or a sea of new users completely lost and probably likely never to return. The most likely reason is that 90% of all users will (and should) visit the forms of their distribution of choice before they go to a generic desktop environment forum. Even the Visual Design Group sub-forum, which once was a land of great ideas, collaboration, and discussion, is now practically abandoned. KF is the exception, as we have Neon, Kubuntu, Netrunner OS, and many other distros represented here; So KF has rather transcended itself, which is 100% a testament to it's contributors.

The people here are knowledgeable and helpful, if not rather stuck in their ways and not always on board with the latest and greatest tricks of the trade out there. But the level of knowledge and fellowship that can be found here, even if it's only through osmosis, make this a place I've been coming to regularly for over 10 years now. Through Kubuntu in 2010, then to Mint KDE, and then Mint main edition, back to Kubuntu and since 2016 on KDE Neon.

Hopefully, with the level of shine and polish that Kubuntu 18.04 looks to be delivering, we will see some new blood in here as well which is always great to see. Good to see you here and look forward to your thoughts as you experiment, break things, and learn to shape plasma into the way you want, which If we're honest is probably the reason we all use it as opposed to a more simplistic "the developers know everything so here's how you do it" kind of approach.

Memo to Gnome folks: "not to be critical."

[GreyGeek]

...
The people here are knowledgeable and helpful, if not rather stuck in their ways and not always on board with the latest and greatest tricks of the trade out there....

I resemble that remark!

[Bings]

It's a rare thing nowadays to find healthy forums anywhere.

[dequire]

I resemble that remark!

You may or may not have come to mind as I was typing that out.

[kenj70]

What a fun bunch! This is great. If you don't mind, I think I will hang out around here for a while.

OK, I can't pursue my original question until I get my desktop back to normal. This system is so configurable that I might say I shot myself in the foot. I removed all extra docks and panels, got the Default Panel back to bottom of the display where I really want it but...

The Panel doesn't work right. Now I can open an application and it shows up on the desktop as it should but when I minimize it, the app disappears into the middle of the screen. It DOES NOT show up in the Panel. What the ...

When I look in KSysguard, sure enough, multiple instances of my apps are still running. I don't know what I did - and I don't know how to fix it. It would seem that some help is required.

Edit: OK, fixed it! I wonder if anyone can point to an on-line resource that can explain how those panels work? I don't think anyone has written one yet.

-=Ken=-

[Snowhog]

You need to add back the Task Manager widget to the Panel.

[kenj70]

You need to add back the Task Manager widget to the Panel.

Thanks for posting. I added my discovery to my previous post. How did the Task Manager get removed? I hear the theme from Twilight Zone.

I think I am going to drop back and try to master the basics before I try to learn Activities again.

Thanks to all who contributed here. This is indeed a very fine forum.

-=Ken=-

[GreyGeek]

You may or may not have come to mind as I was typing that out.

Ya, I noticed that your hair was gray ...

[dequire]

Ya, I noticed that your hair was gray ...

I thought that was a requirement to post here...When in Rome...

[woodsmoke]

@Snowhog I found it! Thanks.

@woodsmoke I have read and reread your post #10 and I can't figure out if you are mad at me - or who? It is not clear to me.

I do appreciate your attempt to help with some - - - directions. However, I am new to KDE and don't yet understand some of the terminology. I have heard of the KDE "cashew" but I have never seen one on my screen.

-=Ken=-

The old woodsmoker exists in a continuum far far away and a long time ago.

actually E.E. Doc. Smith and I were great friends.

one can think of the can of salty nuts but a certain artist for KDE

THOUGHT that she was making a "neutral" but "stylish" "button" to...do stuff...

But, just as with Microsith and "clippy"...

ALL GOOD INTENTIONS...will INCUR the WRATH OF...a greater or lesser number of people

WHO CANNOT CHANGE...

Here...is the "cashew" as it was intended to be used.

Notice the "dingus" at the top right of the screen.

It was intended to be a "shortcut", when clicked, to get access to 'commonly used stuff" that was "not in the regular menu".

HOWEVEr...because people who have "freedom" like to form circular firing squads and DISAGREE WITH ANYONE...

the people with freedom...destroyed the freedom...

Because it was not THEIR...freedom...

Who was it...John adams

who said that a cashew will never survive in a free society because the people who shout loudest will destroy the cashew.

woodREALIZE WHAT IT WAS...duuhhh ...but did not have an ox in the game to gore...

The Linux "cognoscenti" like to style HIMSELVES...not sheselves...it is always a MALE circular firing squad...

of males on a keyboard with Cheetoes(tm) on the floor...

WHO PICK A THING...

AND DESTROY IT...

because ...he can...with Cheeto goop on his keyboard...

woodaarrragghhhsmoke