Home icon on Panel Disappeared. Intrepid 64bit KDE 4.2

[Ric Moore]

On Thu, 2009-03-05 at 13:25 -0500, Steven Vollom wrote:
> Upon recommendation, I backed up then removed .kde from my system.  When 
> the new desktop came on screen.  Most everything was normal again except 
> the restoration of default configuration.
> 
> At a time when I was working on other problems relating to my computer, 
> I needed the Home button that is usually right next to the Kmenu button 
> on the panel.  I call it that because the button has a shadow picture of 
> a home on it, a little house without details.
> 
> I opened and selected  'add widgets',  however the icon I describe here 
> as the 'Home' button doesn't seem to be on the list.
> 
> The 'Home' button from the panel is a plasmoid that I use and want back.

Steven, next time don't just erase a directory with possible user data
in it. Use the mv command to "move" the directory to something like
kde-orig: 
mv .kde .kde-orig  <---remember to use the dot 

This is just as good to the system as removing it (delete) as it ain't
there no more since it's named something else. Good idea in the future.
Plus you could cd into the .kde-orig directory, and retrieve stuff
selectively and copy it to the new .kde directory. Kapeesh? Just about
any dot-file will mostly be user configurations, so keeping a copy is a
good thing until you're sure you are 100%. Ric
 
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