From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1PNSGM-0004df-0r for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 30 Nov 2010 15:37:02 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 72823E0730; Tue, 30 Nov 2010 15:35:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wy0-f181.google.com (mail-wy0-f181.google.com [74.125.82.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 276BDE0730 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2010 15:35:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wyf22 with SMTP id 22so15387762wyf.40 for ; Tue, 30 Nov 2010 07:35:09 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=P3hLSlet/mh6TpQ/lyhV/Ya3ZPOEtayeqfFsrsp8t+w=; b=VjqS2rWARYO3qlnuJYrynmtoIclKykatIuOZiYcwfov/jd5904IfkvH1SzssENGyyb 1h501FDGlTn1pQuydBBoBRwBTnngIbjxzFEKEtC3uiVZUH4j13x4ddWskxdb0v1A1NJK lu7MsPgpiD7e9aCsNEHG2NQRYZEgwxAhK5XGQ= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=EJw2yHaiBZDt37G+ZLhPHM5EbZec4TH/S6qkYI8/Oe92qRIXH2apafWb1L5LUSPKnm m29KBDBCcTNISvrCeKt17TbU+sOhpf5z00JvoOEp2SB1Ls7HEXWT4V4oRf2G+KJY+alT luvAPA4CQqoAg7vBwwe8LYLm2w200zLcBLwlw= Received: by 10.227.153.199 with SMTP id l7mr7855543wbw.133.1291131305579; Tue, 30 Nov 2010 07:35:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from nazgul.localnet (dustpuppy.is.co.za [196.14.169.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id x6sm3059000weq.13.2010.11.30.07.35.01 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 30 Nov 2010 07:35:02 -0800 (PST) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Relocating notification popup KDE-4.5 Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 17:35:34 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.36-ck-r3; KDE/4.5.3; x86_64; ; ) Cc: Dale References: <201011292209.03351.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <4CF44D40.3000200@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4CF44D40.3000200@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201011301735.34923.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: d36a087f-4e46-415b-975a-89535634ae4b X-Archives-Hash: d3402d79a43617c18048e69f3a6c4809 Apparently, though unproven, at 03:02 on Tuesday 30 November 2010, Dale did opine thusly: > walt wrote: > > On 11/29/2010 12:09 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> Such a simple thing and I cannot find how to do it. > > > > I tried kde 4.x during its early Dark Days and finally gave up in > > complete bafflement. > > > > Well, so many people in this group are enthusiastic supporters of > > kde I decided I'd give it another go over our long holiday weekend. > > > > I dreaded the thought of compiling the entire kde desktop on gentoo > > (again!) so instead I came up with the brilliant idea of installing > > kubuntu on a VirtualBox linux guest machine on my gentoo host. > > > > The installation of kubuntu was brain-dead-easy (that's the whole > > point of *ubuntu, after all) but when I logged in and started to > > use the kubuntu kde desktop to do actual work (shudder) I quickly > > found myself in a hopeless muddle (yet again!). > > > > My theory is that anyone over forty just doesn't understand what > > young-punk developers are about, these days. > > > > When I was a young punk myself, long ago, the mantra was "Don't > > trust anyone over forty!" (But I don't suppose you're old enough > > to remember those days.) > > > > I think today's young-punk developers must certainly feel the same > > way about old-fart (over-forty) lusers like me. (You?) > > I'm over 40. I been using KDE4 for a while now. It doesn't get on my > nerves, to much. lol Same here :-) I "get" KDE (mostly) but some stuff is just bizarre: Activities. wtf are those? By and large I get by on everything else. And e17 is starting to look more and more attractive as days go by... -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com