It’s Release 3.4.0 Level “b”. And I’m not satisfied.

I keep an empty desktop: if it’s not covered by windows (as usual) the only things on it, apart from the panel, are two folders “inbox” and “objects” that contain files I’m working on. They live in the upper right corner of the desktop. At least, they’re supposed to live in the upper right corner of the desktop. My new KDE puts them in the upper left corner, along with the trash can (more about the trash can later). I put them back where I wanted them and unchecked “Automatically line up icons” in the Configure Desktop dialog, but it mysteriously checked itself again, and the folders went back to the left. Also (seems like another symptom of KDE forgetting what I want), I selected a different background for the splash screen on startup and though Control Panel duly shows it I still get the default blue-bend thing on startup, but I can live with that.

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There must have been a major cat chess event going on tonight. In the few streets, three minutes by bike, from folk dancing to home I saw at least four groups of cats observing each other. Unfortunately I didn’t have a camera with me (one never has in such circumstances) so here’s one we made earlier a picture I took of an earlier bout when I came home from taking folk-dancing pictures:

From our upstairs window I could see the tabby cat across the road behind its upstairs window, looking wistfully at the local section. The tabby isn’t allowed out, probably not yet as they only moved in yesterday. I had to retreat —one of the tabby’s people had business in the room and I wasn’t exactly decent as I was on my way to the bath— but later I saw the tail-end of what the cat had been watching: the long-haired ginger disappearing under some bushes and the large black retreating into his own back yard.

This time we knew where to go in Wageningen and didn’t have to stand on the crossing with four signs pointing in different directions, each one to another sports centre. And we found out, completely by accident, that the bus the public transport planner recommended from Ede-Wageningen station isn’t the most convenient one; the most convenient one is the one we took from Arnhem which goes all the way from one railway station to another, stopping three minutes’ walk from the sports hall.

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