Date: Sun, 17 Jan 2010 10:41:16 +0000 From: Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Gary Kline <kline@thought.org> Subject: Re: OOo question..... Message-ID: <201001171041.16475.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <20100117030531.GB816@thought.org> References: <20100116000928.GA96431@thought.org> <201001161028.00121.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> <20100117030531.GB816@thought.org>
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On Sunday 17 January 2010, Gary Kline wrote: > On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 10:27:59AM +0000, Mike Clarke wrote: > > On Saturday 16 January 2010, Gary Kline wrote: [snip] > > > Second q is howto use them for my desktop backgrounds in KDE > > > since, upon rebuild and relaunch, everything is black. the > > > first question is howto save a separate image? or are there > > > other tools to do this? [neither xv nor gv work] > > > > Right click on a blank piece of the KDE desktop and select > > "Configure Desktop". This should open with the "Change the > > background settings" icon highlighted. In the "Background" section > > click the "Picture" radio button and click the folder icon on the > > right to browse to your selected image. > > (Several hours later). > > I found the place and added three 'wallpapers'; they haven't > appeared. Probably will after I've rebooted. The new wallpaper should appear immediately after you click on "OK" or "Apply". > ---I see that my newest KDE is 3.5.10. That's what I'm using. > Sometime this year I'll try KDE4 again.-- When I upgraded to FreeBSD 8.0 about a month ago I let sysinstall put KDE4 on me. Big mistake [1]. I disliked it intensely and, after a few days trying to come to terms with it, I reverted back to 3.5.10. YMMV but for me it was just too clumsy and bloated with a lot of new superfluous eye candy and lacked some simple and useful features that I'd become accustomed to. Given time perhaps I could have configured it to my liking but I couldn't see it offering anything useful that I didn't already have with 3.5 so it didn't seem worth the effort of continuing with it. [1] I suspect that my badly managed effort of deinstalling all of KDE4 and installing KDE3 was the main cause of the problems described in my recent thread "Problems building en-openoffice.org-GB-3.1.1 from ports" <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions/2010-January/210421.html>; which resulted in me having to remove and reinstall all my ports. -- Mike Clarke
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