Talk:KDE4 desktop
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[EDITS IN 2010]
I revised the System Settings section, detailing what settings categories can be found under which major groupings in both the General and the Advanced tabs. I also moved town the empty Fonts section to below System Settings, since KDE handles Fonts under System Settings. I'll fill in the Fonts section next. If you don't see anything, i didn't get to it yet, but will within a day. SilverBear 14:51, 2 January 2010 (EST)
I started in on the "Other Dolphin Tricks" section at the end of the page, but need to continue it tomorrow.
IMO we ought to consider having a linked page for Dolphin. There's plenty of New Stuff with Dolphin that we can easily fill a page. What do you all think?
- I agree, had that thought the other day when I pasted something in from ML. Jerry bond 19:11, 2 January 2010 (EST)
I changed the headlines over to wiki-style markup from mixed wiki and html markup, and most of the text. Did not do the list formatting yet.
SilverBear 10:42, 12 March 2010 (EST)
Older Stuff
According to this page kcontrol no longer exists : http://userbase.kde.org/Tutorials/KDE3toKDE4#kcontrol_no_longer_exists kcontrol no longer exists. Use the program systemsettings instead.
--So I changed the wiki entry that referred to kcontrol as the CLI name for System Settings SilverBear 11:46, 3 October 2009 (EDT)
- Thanks, and thanks for helping out with this. Some of the material that is there has been taken straight from KDE sources, which are often well behind the curve. Still, I find it easier to check and edit against the actual install--finally, Warren's--than to invent everything myself. Jerry bond 12:12, 3 October 2009 (EDT)
I guess those http links are just a cut'n'paste relict, so I can clean it up using small magic?
sed -e 's/<a href="/[/' -e 's/">/ /' -e 's/<\/a>/]/'
--Hanzl 03:02, 5 October 2009 (EDT)
- Thanks for asking. The User's Manual is set up so that the links are visible, by Warren's request, and I am using the HTML format here to make that happen so that later all I have to do is paste this page into the revised Manual. Jerry bond 06:28, 5 October 2009 (EDT)
- OK, so I will not touch it now.--Hanzl 07:32, 5 October 2009 (EDT)
- Once that is in the Manual, it would make sense to come back and do what you propose so it looks better. I am just concerned with trying to revise the Manual on short notice with very little help, so am being as lazy as possible! Jerry bond 07:34, 5 October 2009 (EDT)
- Do you need to convert some other pages the other way around (wiki->URL)? I would think up the right filter...--Hanzl 07:43, 5 October 2009 (EDT)
- That's a great idea, thanks. Let me think about that and give you an example of a page we might try that with. Jerry bond 08:10, 5 October 2009 (EDT)
- OK. The rough inverse magic usable from the command line is:
- That's a great idea, thanks. Let me think about that and give you an example of a page we might try that with. Jerry bond 08:10, 5 October 2009 (EDT)
- Do you need to convert some other pages the other way around (wiki->URL)? I would think up the right filter...--Hanzl 07:43, 5 October 2009 (EDT)
- Once that is in the Manual, it would make sense to come back and do what you propose so it looks better. I am just concerned with trying to revise the Manual on short notice with very little help, so am being as lazy as possible! Jerry bond 07:34, 5 October 2009 (EDT)
- OK, so I will not touch it now.--Hanzl 07:32, 5 October 2009 (EDT)
sed -e 's/\[http:\([^ ]*\) \([^]]*\)]/<a href="http:\1">\2<\/a>/g' <wiki-style-file >url-style-file
- or I can convert pages you point me at and send them to you.--Hanzl 08:58, 5 October 2009 (EDT)
- What might be ideal would be to 1) establish a new Category "Manual"); 2) use that Category to designate the Wiki pages that will go directly to the Manual (mostly the big topics); 3) create a batch script that would fetch the pages currently categorized "Manual," convert them, and dump them into a HTML file. If you like this suggestion I can post it on ML for comment and help. Jerry bond 09:50, 5 October 2009 (EDT)
- OK, might be good. We already have a good deal of related ideas in Talk:Relation of wiki and manuals - that is even more ambitious. We did not do too much apart from having those ideas, so I am careful now to stay realistic. But we might strike a good balance by limiting it to automatic conversion of all pages in category Manual, where this conversion would be wikilink->urllink conversion and maybe few more similar ones.--Hanzl 10:08, 5 October 2009 (EDT)
- Well, I did a real try. It is a horrible mess and I am not sure it helps, but, on the other hand, it is a real try instead of discussions :-) Maybe we continue and clean it, maybe we throw it away.--Hanzl 12:30, 5 October 2009 (EDT)
- OK, might be good. We already have a good deal of related ideas in Talk:Relation of wiki and manuals - that is even more ambitious. We did not do too much apart from having those ideas, so I am careful now to stay realistic. But we might strike a good balance by limiting it to automatic conversion of all pages in category Manual, where this conversion would be wikilink->urllink conversion and maybe few more similar ones.--Hanzl 10:08, 5 October 2009 (EDT)
- What might be ideal would be to 1) establish a new Category "Manual"); 2) use that Category to designate the Wiki pages that will go directly to the Manual (mostly the big topics); 3) create a batch script that would fetch the pages currently categorized "Manual," convert them, and dump them into a HTML file. If you like this suggestion I can post it on ML for comment and help. Jerry bond 09:50, 5 October 2009 (EDT)
- or I can convert pages you point me at and send them to you.--Hanzl 08:58, 5 October 2009 (EDT)
[Starting back at margin!]
That's a good start. Eventually we will want to convert things like '''==Title==''' in '''<h2>Title</h2>''' as well (and lists), but that can wait. Thanks for putting time into this. Acesabe is right, the Wiki formatting will have to be standardized, but I have been trying to do that anyway. Jerry bond 14:16, 5 October 2009 (EDT)
SilverBear 17:37, 2 January 2010 (EST)
