For the first one: Top right cashew > Desktop Settings > View. Use the "Layout" drop down to select "Folder View". You can now select a folder after saving this dialog to be viewed as your Desktop.

bcooksley wrote:For the first one: Top right cashew > Desktop Settings > View. Use the "Layout" drop down to select "Folder View". You can now select a folder after saving this dialog to be viewed as your Desktop.

And there is no icon for system storage in that case.

Note that it is not possible in the KDE 4 series to add such behaviour. In KDE 3 it had numerous issues. Note that both Dolphin and Konqueror can display a list in their sidebar however, so a shortcut to them may be enough.

Anixx wrote:I want .desktop file on the desktop which can also be included in menu, shortcuts or anywhere else where the .desktop file can be used, with a link to a folder that shows the storage media - all the mounted disks. Like in Windows, Gnome, KDE3.

If you only want mounted disks, just make a link to /media. If you want all devices, make a link to sysinfo:.

bcooksley wrote:Note that it is not possible in the KDE 4 series to add such behaviour. In KDE 3 it had numerous issues.

Which issues?

Note that both Dolphin and Konqueror can display a list in their sidebar however, so a shortcut to them may be enough.

Not for me. So that is why i do not and will not use KDE4

If you only want mounted disks, just make a link to /media.

/media has many empty mount points which are not mounted anywhere. Also the icons there will appear not as drives but as folders.

Anixx wrote:
I also want the spatial mode in the file manager.

The latter being a blocking feature for me.

If you go to Settings, Configure Konqueror, and click "File Management". you can tick "Open folders in separate windows."

@admins/KDE developers: Is there a reason why plasma couldn't be changed to support using QT widget styles (I know that individual plasmoids sometimes use the QT widget style for some of their internal widgets, but not for the whole plasma theme)? If there isn't I'd suggest requesting such a feature in the Brainstorm forum.
I expect that it would be quite the task to go the other way - using plasma themes for the QT widget style - since they require the plasma engine to run.

As for spatial mode of the file browser, You can certainly request such a feature to be added to Dolphin in the Brainstorm forum.

For the Qt widget styles themselves, it does seem that there isn't quite the variety of styles available for KDE4 as there were for KDE3 - primarily there are oxygen, qtcurve and bespin (and a handful of (ugly) legacy styles like motif and plastique) with numerous setups for qtcurve and bespin on kde-look, whereas I recall seeing a large variety of other nice-looking styles available for KDE 3.

For icon themes, I think your not looking in the right places. For one thing, any icon theme you used in KDE3 you should be able to use in KDE4 (as well as any icon theme for gnome). For another thing, there's a large number of icon themes available on opendesktop.org from plain/mundain to fancy-schmancy depending on your taste. As for the comment about a "normal" theme, you really need to define what you mean by "normal" - normal as in plain old ordinary, normal as in looks like WinXP/Vista/7/Mac/Gnome/etc. There's really no such thing as "normal".

Anixx wrote:

If you only want mounted disks, just make a link to /media.

/media has many empty mount points which are not mounted anywhere. Also the icons there will appear not as drives but as folders.

Right click on your desktop (folder view) and select "Create New" then "Link to device" then choose "DVD ROM, Hard Disc Device, etc. You have to set the device paths manually under properties.

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Anixx wrote:

If you only want mounted disks, just make a link to /media.

/media has many empty mount points which are not mounted anywhere.

This is a bug that was fixed a long time ago (4.4 I think).

Anixx wrote:Also the icons there will appear not as drives but as folders.

Then use sysinfo: as I suggested.

If you go to Settings, Configure Konqueror, and click "File Management". you can tick "Open folders in separate windows."

Yes, there is such checkbox. It is broken from the very invention of KDE4.

As for spatial mode of the file browser, You can certainly request such a feature to be added to Dolphin in the Brainstorm forum.

Ak\lready was: viewtopic.php?f=15&t=6434&start=15

What is more disappointing is that the universal file manager, Konqueror which was capable of navigational, spatial, multi-panel modes as well as their combinations was switched to a narrow-purpose Dolphin which is capable only of navigational mode.

This is a bug that was fixed a long time ago (4.4 I think).

Not. It is not a bug, it is state of my system: sometimes I need to mount someting in the net or .iso image and that's why there are empty mountpoints prepared beforehand. Of course I do not see these empty folders in "storage media" unless they are properly mounted.

Then use sysinfo: as I suggested.

It is just a web page, not what I want.

For one thing, any icon theme you used in KDE3 you should be able to use in KDE4 (as well as any icon theme for gnome).

No they are incompatible. There will be missing icons.

Right click on your desktop (folder view) and select "Create New" then "Link to device" then choose "DVD ROM, Hard Disc Device, etc. You have to set the device paths manually under properties.

I do not want devices directly on my desktop. Besides this, dynamically mounted drives, such as flash would not appear such way.

Anixx, Once upon a time, I was in love. When I lost her, I couldn't see anything as good in anyone else. There was no comparison. I could easily find faults in every look or act in anyone new. Even if she had prettier eyes, smoother skin, and a better personality, she just wasn't my ex and wasn't for me.

Anixx, I believe you're in love with KDE 3.5. I'm sorry KDE 4 isn't for you and I understand that as I've been through a similar situation myself. If/when you get over your loss, I hope you can give KDE 4 another try.

Anixx, I believe you're in love with KDE 3.5.

I am OK with Gnome, KDE3, Windows and many other DEs (I think E17 would be good as well if it was not so buggy, also I am OK with OS/2 workplace, BeOS, IceWM and so on). There is nothing special in KDE3 and it is definitely worser than Windows is. The problem with KDE4 is not in that it is worser, but in that it is unusable.

KDE 4 is unusable? This is 2011, not 2008. You obviously don't need your hand held through the process so either accept how to use it or stop trolling.