feedback on default plasma-desktop layout

Jim Lemon jim at bitwrit.com.au
Wed Aug 24 11:32:20 UTC 2011


On 08/24/2011 09:29 PM, Kevin Kofler wrote:
> Jim Lemon wrote:
>> I vote for emptiness. Whenever I do a complete install, I spend the next
>> week turning things off. My experience so far is that it is a lot easier
>> to turn things on than to turn them off.
>
> That's not quite true in this case. Removing a Plasma widget (plasmoid) from
> the desktop can be done in 1 click (click on the X which appears if you
> mouseover the widget). Adding it means going to the desktop toolbox (by
> clicking on that cashew-like icon), clicking on "Add widget" and then
> finding the correct widget in the list (which also implies you have to know
> how it's called). So removing stuff is much easier than adding it in this
> case.
>
Well, I know it took me days to find out how to get rid of the cashew, 
and that was only one of the things that I decided I didn't need. 
Perhaps I'm a troglodyte in this regard, but I like to start a session 
clean.

Jim



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