On 02/12/2012 06:35 AM, Will Stephenson pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
On Saturday 11 Feb 2012 18:51:41 Will Stephenson wrote:
On Saturday 11 Feb 2012 12:27:42 Ken Schneider -
openSUSE wrote:
Just upgraded KDE from 4.7 to 4.8 and all of the icons
on my desktop
went missing. Is there a way to restore what I had
short of recreating
them manually?
My guess is that they are still there, but 4.8 has started showing a different Activity than the one that has icons on the desktop. Can you pop open the activities switcher and see if your original activity is there and shows your icons again when activated? If not, I'd like to (privately) look at your post-upgrade ~/.kde4/share/config/plasma-desktop-appletsrc (please scan for private data first). And please indicate if your icons were 1) inside a Folder View widget on the desktop 2) individual Icons on the desktop or 3) Part of a Folder View layout as the entire desktop
Ken sent me his config file, which does contain config for Icon widgets on the desktop (case 2)), and copied it into a test user's .kde4/share/config, and the icons are visible as expected. So I'm no wiser what is going on on Ken's system. There is a regular desktop on screen -1 (the default) and grid desktop defined on screen 0 with a few other icons, so I assume that Ken has two screens. Perhaps this is the root of a configuration migration problem. Having screens numbered -1 and 0 seems iffy but I would have to check if something has changed with screen numbering in Plasma's config in 4.8, and I need to retest with the KR48 rpms (I'm on a git build here) and a second screen, which I can do back in the office next week.
Will
Thanks Will. I did change the desktop to a grid desktop and added the icons/widgets that I could recall I was using. No clue why my original icon setup was missing including my favorite background picture. -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org