[NBLUG/talk] Upgrading a Debian box to KDE 3.5

[Troy Arnold]

On Fri, Dec 30, 2005 at 07:30:40PM -0800, Lincoln Peters wrote:
> On Friday 30 December 2005 14:10, Lincoln Peters wrote:
> > I'll check in later to let you know how it goes.
> 
> So far so good, although I can't help but notice that the icons that used to 
> appear next to my KMail spam-filtering actions ("classify as spam" and 
> "classify as NOT spam") have been replaced by rather generic-looking "window" 
> icons.
> 
> On the other hand, it's got lots of nice new eye candy, the support for 
> different backgrounds on different displays is a welcome addition (I recently 
> set up dual monitors, and until now most desktop backgrounds became nasty 
> eyesores), and I'm sure that there is more waiting to be discovered.
> 
> Although what I'd REALLY like to see is support for multiple panels like GNOME 
> has (so I can have distinct panels for each of my two monitors)...

Perhaps I'm misunderstanding but:
Right-click on the panel --> add new panel

I'm using two myself, plus a disembodied kpager.

Bonus notes:
I've always been a bit of a terminal junkie, but recently I've been finding
krusader to be a damn fine GUI file manager.

And if you enjoy eye candy (transparency+shadows), and have a fast video
card, kde does integrade well with xorg's composite extension.  Nvidia's
8xxx series of drivers finally seems stable with composite active.

#Section "Extensions"
#    Option "Composite" "Enable"
#EndSection

As you can see by the hash marks, it was a little bit too much candy for
me, but experimenting with it was a fun way to avoid working on the things
I should be working on.

-troy