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Part I: Getting Your Feet Wet
The Panel Editor contains icons for working with your panel. Table 5-4 shows
what each of these icons do.
Table 5-4
Feature
Screen Edge button
Height button
Add Widgets button
Lock Widgets button
More Settings button
Exit button
Left-side pointer
Right-side top pointer
Right-side bottom pointer
The Panel Editor
What It Does
Selects which side of the desktop the panel
appears on.
Selects the height of the panel.
Adds new widgets to the panel.
Prevents widgets from getting moved or removed
accidentally.
Accesses buttons you can use to align the panel
widgets, autohide the panel, or specify whether windows
can cover the panel.
Exits the panel editor.
Sets the location of the left side of the panel.
Sets the maximum location of the right side of the
panel.
Sets the minimum location of the right side of the
panel.
In edit mode, you can also move existing widgets around the panel by dragging
and dropping them, or you can remove existing widgets by right-clicking
the widget icon and selecting the removal option. Using all these features,
you can select just how your panel looks on your desktop.
The desktop
The desktop is possibly the most controversial feature in the latest version
(Version 4) of KDE. Its behavior has significant differences from what you’d
get in older versions of KDE — and from the desktop in GNOME as well. The
desktop in KDE works more like an extension of the panel than a desktop.
You can’t place files, folders, or application icons in the desktop in KDE.
Instead, you just place additional widgets.
That said, however, you can use a trick to make the KDE desktop behave similarly
to the GNOME desktop. One of the widgets you can use is the Folder View
widget, which provides a GNOME desktop-like area on your KDE desktop. The