Communicating freely
Thoughts on how we can all talk a little easier, and how that can make life better.
Thundering along
After some hiccups earlier today, KDE 4 and I are getting along pretty well. Dolphin and I did some pretty heavy file stuff earlier. Everything went perfectly on that front.
I’m not getting along with the KATE text editor as well as I had hoped. We occasionally have disagreements about file names. It freaks out when trying to "Save as…" a document with a name like "Report: week 20". Errors pop up and then my file pretends it is actually called "week 20" and has no knowledge of any reports. What a liar.
I turned off the Desktop Effects earlier. They are pretty but I think my graphics card is not powerful enough to deal with them. Some flickering occurred when doing things like maximising and minimising windows. I found that visually annoying. Still, it’s worth pointing out that this desktop option was functional, worked without any configuration and pretty much did what I expected…apart from one element. There was an option for taskbar previews of window contents. When I turned that on, nothing happened.
One thing I want to do now is change the order of display in the menu favourites. I love this feature of the technology. It’s already making life easier for me. I just want to be able to change the order a little. Drag and drop didn’t work and it was not immediately obvious which setting might do it.