Anne Wilson wrote:
On Sunday 01 March 2009 19:33:40 Jim wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
>
>> On Sunday 01 March 2009 18:01:14 Jim wrote:
>>
>>> Anne Wilson wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sunday 01 March 2009 17:11:04 Jim wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Anne Wilson wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>> Sorry, I can't answer that. I have 4.2 on three different systems
>>>> (hardware and software versions) and don't have that problem. I
can't
>>>> even guess the cause.
>>>>
>>>> Anne
>>>>
>>> I'm using 4.2 also.
>>>
>> I'm just wondering if something left over from the updates is causing
>> this. Try renaming these two files
>> ~/.kde4/share/config/plasmarc
>> ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-appletsrc
>>
>> and re-start KDE. You will lose any configuration you've done, but it
>> will be a clean start, and hopefully will then hold the settings you
>> make.
>>
>> Anne
>>
> I renamed the two files to .bak and it generate new ones but it had no
> affect on Panel/Tray.
>
The method Colin gave you would have been better. Try that.
> The only thing I seen different was it deleted the Linked Icons I had
> made on Desktop folder.
> Since this is a new install , I login to Root and deleted the User I
> setup and made a new one, which gives me a new
> Panel/Tray, I will just have to Link new Icons on Desktop/Folder.
>
I'm not sure what you mean by this. You can certainly have launch icons on
the panel. Is that now what you mean?
> Some place in .kde/share/config will have to be settings for Panel .
>
Change the settings using the gui tools provided.
Anne
The only draw back is there is no way to resize the "Tray" which
covers
50% of panel.