Tasklist colours in KDE

Although I use GNOME there are certain programmes that I use from KDE, like Kontact and konqueror and krusader. I have long had a gripe that I can’t read the tasks in Kontact because the red colouring of them obscures the text. So today I did something about it ...

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gmail and iceweasel

On logging into gmail yesterday morning on iceweasel I got the following message - “You are using an old version of Firefox that Gmail no longer supports. Some features may not work correctly” - are there any plans for upgrading iceweasel to get round this problem, or should I install a more ...

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Widgets!

Yesterday was spent fooling around with widgets, those mini-programs that run on the KDE desktop and its panels. To start at the beginning, for some reason I unlocked my widgets, and then lost my ‘pager’ of virtual desktops! Whilst attempting to get them back I deleted the panel that they ...

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