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Tuesday, June 21st 2005, 2:44pm

A few consmetic KDE issues

Hi.

I just upgraded from Mandrake 10.1, to Mandriva LE 2005 (soon to be Mandrivis? :) ). It has KDE 3.3.2 I just have a few questions about some desktop issues.

1. Is it possible for Konqueror to preview and open .svgz files? It knows about them, but it just displays the "svgz" icon. I turned on the previews for Scallable Vector Graphics both in the Preview menu of Konqueror, and in KCC. When I double click on a svgz file, it gives an XML parse error, as if it was trying to open it as a webpage. Also Kuickshow couldn't open it. Only GIMP could. Am I missing something? I did urpmi --auto-select after the upgrade, so it updated my whole system.

2. My desktop icons don't want to stay where they are. I use grid layout, and no sorting. I set them up the way I want, but upon logging in they rearrange themselves. I've been told on IRC (by a kde developer I think), that this is a bug in KDE, and that fix is in SVN. Anyone else have this problem, and any workaround to this?

3. This may be specific to Mandriva, but hopefully someone can help me. On the left side in the taskbar, I have the desktop access button. By default this button is some png of a desktop with a lamp. It's the same as in Mdk 10.1. However, KDE 3.3.2 uses svg's there now, so it streches the picture, and makes it really ugly. Is there a way to change this, so it displays desktop.svgz for example? I looked through kickerrc, but without knowing exact keys, and formatting to be used, it's kinda criptic.

4. I use plastic style. Now in KDE 3.3.2, widgets with focus on them have a blue border around them. Is there a way to turn this off, or is it part of Plastic style now? I couldn't find it anywhere in options. I didn't have this before, but my brother who used Lipstick, did. So I am thinking it's just part of the style maybe, and not a user option?

Any ideas on any of these is appreciated.

Thanks

Latem
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C:
printf("%10.2f", x);
C++:
cout << setw(10) << setprecision(2) << showpoint << x;
Java:
java.text.NumberFormat formatter = java.text.NumberFormat.getNumberInstance();
formatter.setMinimumFractionDigits(2);
formatter.setMaximumFractionDigits(2);
String s = formatter.format(x);
for (int i = s.length(); i < 10; i++) System.out.print(' ');
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