Hello Masta MCF,
Thanks for the info about user account icons. I'm finishing up a test install
right now and will choose a user icon to see if the problem resolves. There are
two points of confusion that may have been tricking me the whole time:
1) When I get the user creation page. It actually shows a user icon in the button
itself (i.e. little schoolboy with blue cap and red tie). I guess I've always
assumed that would be the default user icon if the user doesn't change it. If
that's not the case the perhaps that user icon preview should show a 'No Picture
Selected' message instead to notify the user that there is in fact no user icon
selected.
2) It's not totally obvious that the user icon button is actually a button. Don't
get me wrong, _I_ know it's a button but it wouldn't expect that everyone would
know it's a button. Perhaps some kind of indicator to that fact would be helpful
(i.e. a raised look, a message to 'click here' to change icon, or simply a
sentence in the 'Help' file for this page).
I'll try to repeat the theme switching/kde menu breaking problem in this virtual
test. If I can, then I'll try your suggestion on 16bit color mode. I'll also pay
attention to this issue when I do more testing on real hardware to see if the
problem persists. You're probably right, it's probably just a driver problem
especially since I'm testing in vmware right now. Overall, it's not a big problem
since a reboot fixed the issue until I messed with the themes again.
Funny, what I ended up inadvertently doing last time was installing the KDE menu
widget to the desktop though I didn't know it was there until I closes the widget
installation window. The desktop KDE menu worked fine but the normal panel-docked
kde menu did not. Well, maybe not so funny :D
Cheers, newt
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Thursday, September 10, 2009, 11:35:36 AM, you wrote:
MM> KDM user icons will not show unless you select an icon during user setup.
MM> Otherwise the installer assumes that you do not want to use icons. And, the
MM> theme has to support user icons... just a note that the final theme will
MM> support them.
MM> If you forget to select a user icon during installation, you can log in
MM> root @ KDM and open System Settings/Advanced tab/Login Manager/Users tab/
MM> ..then under "User Image Source" and "User Images", you can select an icon
MM> for your users there and apply.
MM> The Blebd theme for desktop does look nice. I use on my desktop while
MM> testing. However, I am not able to duplicate the issues described while
MM> changing settings and themes. Perhaps some systems might need to logout
MM> after changes? The menu not showing up, might be due to graphics driver. Try
MM> using the 16 color mode instead of the 24 color mode during installation (or
MM> edit xorg.conf instead) to see if this brings back the menu. If this is the
MM> case, the classic menu will work for you via right click on the menu icon.
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