Adding home folder/trash can to desktop + plea for simplicity

[Nils Kassube]

Neil Winchurst wrote:
> On 11/12/11 10:17, Nils Kassube wrote:
> > It is already available in version 4.4.5 (Lucid) and maybe earlier.
> > However you need the option "Different widgets for each desktop"
> > enabled (even in 12.04).

> As I understand it this just means that I can have different icons on
> each desktop, not different backgrounds. Or am I wrong about that?

Yes. With "Different widgets for each desktop" enabled you can change 
the backgrounds for the desktops individually.  If I understand it 
correctly, icons and backgrounds are handled the same way in KDE4. 
Therefore if you disable "Different widgets for each desktop", you don't 
get different backgrounds either. Of course that doesn't make much sense 
to a "normal" user like you and me who isn't familiar with the inner 
working of KDE4. :)

> With KDE3, if I right clicked on the desktop and chose to change the
> settings I saw a list of all the desktops so I could choose each one
> separately and set the background colour as wanted. Now, with KDE4, I
> don't see a list of the desktops, the only choice is 'Default
> desktop'. Anything I do here changes all desktops together. Or am I
> missing something?

Did you first enable "Different widgets for each desktop" at the pager 
settings? Well, that's another point which doesn't make much sense to a 
normal user because I would have expected to also find the pager 
settings when I right-click on the desktop and select "Desktop 
settings". Anyway, I don't see something like "default desktop" here 
independent from the "different widgets" option. But if that option is 
enabled, I can change the background for the current desktop. Then I 
close the desktop settings window and switch to the next desktop. There 
I go to desktop settings again and I can change the background for this 
desktop, leaving the first unchanged.


Nils