Re: [libreoffice-users] Installing 4.1 on OpenSuse

Hi Regina

You've received some very good advice here, I'll just add my little bit. 
If you are using KDE with openSuSE, then you can also use a feature of 
KDE built in, called "Desktop Folders", similiar to Stardock's "Fences", 
and dare I say it here, Windows 8's new Metro/Modern desktop (Hmmm! a 
little humorous dig at MS, wonder where they got their Win8 layout 
from!!!!!). Basically it is where one can group similiar apps / 
workspace icons and so forth, so for instance you can group all of the 
LO icons in one fence, utilities in another fence and so on and so 
forth. But unlike a traditional folder on a desktop, these display their 
contents, sort of in an expanded folder, making the icons visible, but 
keeping order. And this is available with KDE on any distro, whether 
native to that distro or as an add-on such as Debian based distro's.

A quick history lesson on the two most common front end / GUI shells 
offered in Linux distro's, KDE (K Desktop Environment) and GNOME (GNU 
Network Object Model Environment as it was initially known as). KDE very 
popular due to similarity in layout and function to MS Windows, and 
GNOME popular with Apple O/S type users for function and layout. There 
are of course many other desktops as well.

Very useful, hope you find it's of use to you. As Tom iterated in 
another post, nice to offer you back something for all your help with LO 
to us.

Regards

Andrew Brown

On 10/08/2013 12:36 AM, Tom Davies wrote:
> Hi :)
> i knew someone would have a good answer for 2.  1 only changed in the latest release, i think, and 
> i only heard about that on this list otherwise i'm not sure any of us would have known.  Well, a 
> couple of people obviously.  Good to see another person with an excellent name had the answer for 2
> Regards from
> Tom too :)
>
>
>
>
>
> > ________________________________
> > From: Thomas Taylor <linxt@comcast.net>
> > To: users@global.libreoffice.org
> > Sent: Friday, 9 August 2013, 19:19
> > Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Installing 4.1 on OpenSuse
> >
> >
> > <snip />
> >
> >
> > > (2)
> > > I want to get an icon on the desktop, which launches the start center,
> > > not a specific module. How do I get that?
> > >
> > > Kind regards
> > > Regina
> > Not sure  about what you mean by the "start center". In the lower left corner
> > of the screen (if you're using KDE) is a startup icon. You can start any
> > installed program from there. LO will be under "Office > Word Processors". OR
> > you can do like many of use and either put the icon on the desktop or in the
> > bottom panel.
> >
> > Tom


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