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[Stan Goodman <stan.goodman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday 31 March 2008 00:04:21 David C. Rankin wrote:
> Stan Goodman wrote:
> > On Sunday 30 March 2008 22:06:51 David C. Rankin wrote:
> > > Stan Goodman wrote:
> > > > On Sunday 30 March 2008 12:38:29 auxsvr@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > > > > On Sunday 30 March 2008, Stan Goodman wrote:
> > > > > > It is really difficult to operate without the Panel that has
> > > > > > vanished, because it contains the virtual desktops. If I could
> > > > > > destroy the thing and make a new one, and could emplace the
> > > > > > applets on it as they were, life would be much easier. Can that
> > > > > > be done?
> > > > >
> > > > > Do you mean that the panel doesn't start when logging in? I had
> > > > > the same problem some months ago, it was caused by a .desktop file
> > > > > (kcmkicker.desktop if I remember correctly) in the .kde directory.
> > > > > Try deleting it.
> > > >
> > > > When the the machine boots (to this user), it does appear
> > > > momentarily, and then disappears. That doesn't sound like what you
> > > > describe, but stranger things have happened lately; it's worth a
> > > > try to delete the file.
> > > >
> > > > I should have mentioned that I have a second panel on the desktop,
> > > > at the top of the screen, currently containing only two icons. If
> > > > this one is displayed, then the problem is limited to the default
> > > > panel, which is at the bottom of the screen.
> > >
> > > Stan,
> > >
> > >    I believe the proper command is:
> > >
> > > dcop kicker kicker restart
> > >
> > > I ran into this problem with compiz a while back
> >
> > But the problem turned out to be that the file
> > <~/.kde/share/config/kickerr> had been altered, in that two lines had
> > been deleted (not by me; I never heard of that file previously; and
> > there is nobody else here). The lines:
> >
> > AutoHidePanel=false   and
> > AutoHideDelay=3
> >
> > were missing -- although the Hiding tab in the Panels configuration
> > notebook of Control Center still showed the correct settings as if
> > the missing lines were actually present. Someone much more familiar
> > with Linux than me might have put 2 +2 together and deduced exactly
> > where the problem was, just because the panel did appear very briefly
> > and then went into hiding. So it was clear that it had not been
> > deleted -- and I even mentioned that at one point.
> >
> > The file was otherwise uncorrupted. Odd that such a thing can happen
> > spontaneously to a file without making gibberish of it.
>
> There seem to be a bunch of those in KDE. Another one that comes to
> mind is "MenuEntryHeight=25" (or 26 or 32) that controls icon size and
> spacing in the start menu. That too disappears from
> ~/.kde/share/config/kickerrc under the section:
>
> [menus]
> <snip>
> MenuEntryFormat=NameAndDescription
> MenuEntryHeight=32
>
> Looks like KDE routines dealing with kickerrc should be revisited by
> the KDE folks.

Wouldn't you think so? 

That they don't is _one_ of the downsides to free software.

Is there somewhere a list of these things?

-- 
Stan Goodman
Qiryat Tiv'on
Israel
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