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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: What's with the background docking icon?
From:       Michael Reiher <michael.reiher () gmx ! de>
Date:       1998-11-19 20:26:13
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Aaron Levinson wrote:
> 
> I got a CVS drop late last night, and the first thing I noticed was the
> docking icon that's taking up precious docking space on the kpanel.  I
> initially assumed that it must provide some cool new feature to be there
> by default, but all it does is allow you to change the background!  Not
> only that, but you can't get rid of the damn thing.  "Quit" does not exist
> in the popup menu.  In addition, unlike standard docking apps, there's no
> window associated with it.
> 
> This functionality is provided elsewhere, from THREE different places,
> actually.  You can right click on the desktop (the background), select
> "Display properties" and then click on the background tab.  You can run
> the KDE Control Center and get to it that way.  And you can go to the KDE
> start menu, Settings, Desktop, Background.  Does the user really need
> another way to do this???
> 
Agree! Makes no sence to me to put config stuff in the docking area.
Because you donīt change your desktop settings every ten minutes. Itīs
only wastet space.

Michael

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Michael Reiher  
     Student at Dresden University of Technology
          Department of Computer Science
               email: michael.reiher@gmx.de

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