SOLVED: Kubuntu 8.10 desktop - how to get back the panel at the bottom of the screen?

[Eberhard Roloff]

Bas Roufs wrote:

> However it may be, this is what I have done, taking into account this
> terminal approach:
>> -open a terminal
>> -cp .kde/ .kde.org
>> -cp .kde4/ .kde4.org
> In order to avoid mistakes, I first installed Midnight Commander:
> 'terminal>sudo apt-get install mc'.
> The next step was this one:
> 'terminal>sudo mc'
> Than I copied the old .kde configuration to .kde.org via F5.

Bas,

I am glad that it worked.
I am even more delighted that you did the copy via mc, since my commands 
were buggy indeed.

Imho it should have read:
cp -rd .kde/ .kde.org

r means "recursive copy"
D means "copy empty directories, as well".

So my original command most probably would have left you with an 
unusable saftety copy. ;-(((

Sorry for my mistakes and again, it is great that your panel is back!

regards
Eberhard