Jim wrote:
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.
The settings for the Panel is in plasma-appletsrc, attached is example
of the Panel Tray :
[Containments][3][Applets][8]
geometry=844,3,112,32
immutability=1
plugin=systemtray
zvalue=0