Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2827 mails)

[Will Stephenson <wstephenson@xxxxxxx>]

On Saturday 20 December 2008 18:46:35 Bob Williams wrote:
> OK. I've installed the debuginfo packages, as you suggest. I tried to
> provoke the plasma crash again, so that more informative logs would be
> generated, but this time it didn't complain. It didn't do what was
> requested, either. The desktop initially cleared to a plain blue background
> with an empty Desktop folder. The desktop icons then appeared as a neat row
> of widgety things at top left, and the desktop turned black at the same
> time. One by one the icons/widgets disappeared, then the original KDE4
> desktop reappeared, with the original Desktop Folder, which repopulated
> itself with the icons from /home/<user>/Desktop. Back to square one :(

If you're migrating from KDE 4.0 on 11.0, you'll have some Icon widgets on the 
desktop on the default desktop background left over.  The reason is, in KDE 
4.0 we tried to do icons-on-the-desktop using an Icon widget/plasmoid per file 
in ~/Desktop, which turned out to be a bad idea (they just don't behave like a 
set of files wrt to selection, moving, grouping, context menus).  So Folder 
View was implemented.  I'm not sure what's going on with the disappearing 
icons, but you could try removing these (using the interface that appears on 
hover).

> Could this behaviour have anything to do with the fact that I've been
> running KDE3.5 alongside KDE4, trying them both in different sessions? IOW
> I have both a ~/.kde and a ~/.kde4 folder.

Not really, we deliberately separated these folders so that KDE 3 can be used 
undisturbed by KDE 4.  Some other distros are forcing KDE 4 only, because 
apps' config files in .kde have been upgraded by running the KDE 4 version of 
the app.

> When my new machine arrives, I shall do a clean install of 11.1 & KDE4.1. I
> suspect it would be a good idea to remove ~/.kde before remounting /home.

Don't do that! 

I'd move or remove ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma*rc before logging into KDE 4, 
then you'll get the default 4.1 desktop with Folder View applet, then i 
*expect* switching to Folder View as desktop will work without crashing.

HTH

Will
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