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Wishlist regarding KDE/Window Managers

February 10th, 2009 Leave a comment Go to comments

I went to a group meeting. Usually, my laptop is not used for projector. But since, everyone else had mac, and they didn’t have the connector, I had to use my laptop. I had to restart X to get the projector working. Now, my default my KDE starts kopete, firefox, kontact, amarok, skype, plasma. The worst is plasma, skype and kopete. Plasma because I have this photobox on my desktop which shows pictures. Now, there is no objectional photo being displayed, but I still want to avoid showing that in public, because they are a little private. Skype because it doesn’t start in minimized mode. Kopete because it starts showing offline messages. Also, the sound. Now when I am in a group meeting, I want my desktop to be a little formal. I don’t want all this on startup. But when I am using it for normal purpose, I want all these things. So, here is the wishlist. Is it possible that on start, I could have an option to start the Window Manager in a formal mode, or unformal mode. Like I have an option to select between gnome and kde on start. I strongly believe that its a really important feature, and it should be available. Since I use mostly KDE applications, I believe KDE framework should have such facility. It will also be easier that way.

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  1. April 4th, 2009 at 09:53 | #1

    Umm, create a different user?

  2. April 4th, 2009 at 23:14 | #2

    Thats what I did for the next meeting. But it creates lot of troubles. One that all my data will be in other login, so if I want to access that (which I have to, to show my code/working of my code/the paper I read/wrote) I have to face some troubles. And also, I sometimes have to access emails (I do not use imap, if possible). Now, I can create a different user in which I will do all the work, but then I have keep switching between users if I want to play songs while doing work.

    Of course, I can link my directories, and I can change permissions so that, but thats a cumbersome job and is not nice way of handling things. And this feature if implemented will be like Firefox, when it crashes it asks if it should recover old session, or start a new session.

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