[kde 4.1] Re: Desk top missing

[William Witt]

On Wednesday 20 August 2008 08:42:04 Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> --- NoOp <glgxg at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > On 08/18/2008 09:14 PM, Leonard Chatagnier wrote:
> > > --- Bill Taylor <th1bill at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> > >> I turned my computer on and my background and the
> > >> launchers are missing.
> > >> My task bars are there but just a blue, my
> >
> > choice,
> >
> > >> desktop, nothing
> > >> else.  I'm running:
> > >>
> > >> Ubuntu 8.04
> > >> Gnome Desk Top
> > >> No effects
> > >>
> > >> -
> > >
> > > Hello Bill.
> > > I haven't the solution but had the same issue with
> >
> > KDE
> >
> > > 4.1 desktop on Ubuntu AMD64 8.04.1.  All the files
> >
> > are
> >
> > > in my $HOME/Desktop folder, every last one of them
> >
> > but
> >
> > > can't figure how to restore them on the GUI.  Have
> > > also posted the issue but no response. Tried just
> > > copying the files to Desktop but you can't copy
> >
> > files
> >
> > > to same files. My issue happened after a
> >
> > non-lightning
> >
> > > related power failure. I can log in to kde reg
> >
> > desktop
> >
> > > and the files/folders are still on the GUI desktop
> > > just not in KDE 4.1
> > > There should be be a simple solution to this, IMO,
> >
> > but
> >
> > > haven't found it.  Maybe some kde users like Derek
> >
> > can
> >
> > > offer some help to us, hopefully.
> >
> > You really should start a new thread, or refer back
> > to an old one as
> > this thread specifically refers to "Gnome Desk Top".
> >
> > But while we're here; in gnome, restoring the
> > desktop to it's original
> > state sometimes involves removing the .config
> > .gnome* folders (actually
> > renaming them so you can fallback). I don't know if
> > this will work for
> > you, but I've just tried it on one of my systems and
> > it seems to have
> > restored the clock back to its fat self (I had it
> > small displaying date
> > & time) yet kept the icons that I'd installed on the
> > panel (Desktop,
> > SeaMonkey, etc), so you might give it a try:
> >
> > rename ~/.kde4 to ~/x-kde4-x and logout then log
> > back in. A new .kde4
> > folder will be created when you log back in. If that
> > doesn't work, then
> > just delete the new .kde4 folder and rename
> > x-.kde4-x back to .kde4.
>
> Thanks NoOP for the above tip but did get me my
> Desktop back and the files are still on the file
> system after the changes were made.
> First, I mved the .kds4 and logged out, no change.
> Then mved the .conf and .gnome* and logged out also no
> change.  Finally restored the orig .kde4 and mved it
> out again, logged out with no change; still no desktop
> restored. I'll restore all the originals and proceed
> with Bart's suggestions. I sure thought your
> suggestion would work and will even reboot before
> restoring the original files.  Thanks for trying,
>
>
> Leonard Chatagnier
> lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net

KDE4.0 had a feature to create a plasmoid for every item in the Desktop 
folder.  I haven't seen it on any of the KDE4.1 setups I've used.  You can 
have similar functionality if you put a folder view pointing to ~/Desktop on 
the desktop.  While perhaps not as visually appealing folder views have some 
interesting features, like being able to apply filters to them.  Additionally, 
you are not limited to one, so you could have one for ~/Documents as well. 

Will
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