kde-4.2

[Jim]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Sunday 01 March 2009 07:25:34 Gene Heskett wrote:
>   
>> On Sunday 01 March 2009, Craig White wrote:
>>     
>>> On Sun, 2009-03-01 at 00:17 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>       
>>>> Greetings;
>>>>
>>>> I discovered about 2 hours ago that the updates repo in yum.repos.d was
>>>> not enabled by the f10 upgrade, so I have been trying to pull in some of
>>>> the updates, but because of clashes I had to remove of some 4.1.2 stuff.
>>>>
>>>> And I have now lost the kde menu at the left end of the taskbar.  If and
>>>> when I get it all updated, will that come back on an x restart?  Or has
>>>> some new thingy replaced it?
>>>>         
>>> ----
>>> you can always add it back it...it's a widget
>>> ----
>>>
>>>       
>>>> FWIW, Akonadi refuses to start, and when attempting to read the rest of
>>>> the error list it shrinks to about half height for each click on the
>>>> scroll bar until it all goes away, so I still don't have a good idea as
>>>> to what its missing.
>>>>         
>>> ----
>>> probably need to get the rest of the updates installed
>>>
>>> Craig
>>>       
>> They are pretty well by now Craig, maybe a dozen packages I don't have a
>> use for.  I got the kmenu thing back, but how can I move it to the left end
>> of the bar where it belongs, I don't seem to have found that bit of magic
>> poo yet.
>>
>>     
> This is part of the Panel Config.  You can get that either from the Panel 
> Settings menu (right-click on empty taskbar) or by hitting the small cashew at 
> the extreme right of the panel.  When that panel is open, hovering over the 
> icon will change the cursor to a diamond, at which point you can drag the icon 
> to any position you want.  You probably will want to do this with any new 
> launch icons you add, to get them into the order you prefer.  Before you 
> leave, check out the More Settings, just so that you know what the choices 
> are.  Leave by hitting the red X.
>
> Anne
>   
I moved one Icon at left, over one spot,  and then the panel "tray" 
extended out to cover 50% of the panel, how do you resize the tray, same 
with clock.
This Panel in KDE-4.2 is the screwiest  thing I've ever seen.