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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: Autostart folder not working
From:       David Faure <david () mandrakesoft ! com>
Date:       2000-10-09 17:05:05
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On Mon, 09 Oct 2000, Ferdinand Gassauer wrote :
>On Monday 09 October 2000 18:59, David Faure wrote:
>> On Mon, 09 Oct 2000, Paritosh Patel/West Palm Beach/IBM wrote :
>> >Has anyone noticed that the Autostart folder does not get looked at when
>> >KDE starts up?  I have three items in this folder that start when I click
>> >on them, but do not start automatically when KDE starts up.
>>
>> The Autostart folder on the desktop is the old one from kde 1, you can
>> delete it. In konqueror, use Go/Autostart to go to the autostart folder,
>> its new location, and copy [move] your stuff there.
>> Same with Templates.
>>
>> FX suggested that I add a dialog box to kdesktop to explain that the first
>> time KDE is started, but I'm no good at writing down such things, and it
>> would be a new string to translate (quite mandatorily, since it's the first
>> thing users will see....) Opinions ?
>Why not moving the stuff from the old folder automagicaly ?

Because some people on this very list wanted to be able to switch
back to KDE 1.... so moving is not good.
Copying would fix the initial problem, but the user would keep thinking
that it's the folder on the desktop that works, so he wouldn't understand
why any further change to that directory doesn't work.....

>Suggestion
>Move the stuff and open konqueror in this directory on first run

Copy and show ? Hmm, why not....... A bit crude though, it would lack
an explanation :-)

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David FAURE, david@mandrakesoft.com, faure@kde.org
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