[lde4.1}Desk top missing

[Leonard Chatagnier]

 Leonard Chatagnier
lenc5570 at sbcglobal.net



----- Original Message ----
> From: Mario Vukelic <mario.vukelic at dantian.org>
> To: "Ubuntu user technical support, not for general discussions" <ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 11:19:12 PM
> Subject: Re: [lde4.1}Desk top missing
> 
> On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 22:00 -0400, Bart Silverstrim wrote:
> > This is sounding more and more like a "feature" in KDE that is hiding 
> > icons. There must be a configuration program of some kind to check 
> > this...a preference or something.
> 
> I ignored this thread and I don't use KDE, but even I know that ;) as
> it's been the thing people complained about most in KDE 4.0 (because it
> was missing) and therefore the thing people wrote about most in KDE 4.1
> reviews. There is a Plasma folder view that needs to be placed on the
> desktop. Note that this feature is not completely done yet.
> 
> Here is a description (incidentally the first hit for kde AND 4.1 AND
> desktop AND icons on Google):
> http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2008/05/no-more-desktop-icons-in-41.html
> 
I haven't read your url yet but will.  We, or I, did try out the Plasma folder and decided it wasn't what I wanted and wasn't  what I had on my desktop before the power failure. I just wanted what I had on my desktop before the power failure which didn't cause any file system problem according to e2fsck -cckc and -p but apparently brought the bug to life, or whatever.  I guess I can live with it and eventually the developers will fix it, maybe.
An even more exasperating issue with kde4.1 is I now can't add the "show desktop" icon with the add widgets task bar. It's in the add widgets menu but can't add it, it's also invisible, and I had it installed once before thanks to NoOp. If I right click on a blank space on the panel a pop up appears with an entry saying remove the unknown applet and selecting that removes the empty space between the icons.  I'll just have to be patient but it's not  in my nature.  Hey Mario, thanks for the link! It'll give me something to do after I read the list  mail. -:)